Samuel Reinhard

Swiss Contemporary Composer and Pianist

Samuel Reinhard is a Swiss composer of electroacoustic music (b. 1980). Guided by minimalist and aleatoric tenets, Reinhard's work emphasizes repetition and extended duration. His compositional practice is driven by an interest in the physical and spatial properties of sound, as well as the timbral and textural qualities of recorded material and the recording technologies employed to capture said material. In his work, Reinhard engages with sonic matter and musical ideas on a granular level while interrogating and exploring the intricacies of perception and the act of listening itself. In addition to his recorded output, Reinhard maintains a practice of interdisciplinary collaborations and commissions. He earned his MA in Contemporary Arts Practice (Music & Media Arts) from Bern University of the Arts in 2015, and has been awarded grants and artist residencies from the Swiss Arts Council, the Music Commission of the City of Bern, the Department of Culture of the Canton of Bern, and others. Reinhard lives and works between Bern and Brooklyn, NY.