Ilse Maria Reich

Born in 1944 in Sibiu, German-Romanian organist Ilse Maria Reich studied the pipe organ in Prague with Jiří Rheinberger, in Essen with Gisbert Schneider, and at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover with Ulrich Bremsteller. Stated as a most valuable organist in Romania, with participation in international festivals, she was known worldwide due to its genuine vocation - after emigrating in 1988 in Germany. In 1990, she founded a music school in Rottenburg an der Laaber (Landshut) - which now has over 500 students - which she managed as director between 1990 and 2006. As conductor of the choir and orchestra ensembles toured with the school in South Africa, Italy, Romania, Czech Republic and China. Over the years, Ilse Maria Reich has prepared and made possible the collaboration between the school choir "Chorgemeinschaft der Musikschule Städtischen" and the Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra in several vocal-symphonic concerts. As organist, she has a wide repertory, from Baroque to contemporary music, playing in several chamber ensembles ans as a soloist. She recorded many discs for labels from Romania and Germany (among them three LPs an one CD were recorded at the Sf. Margret church in Mediaş). Every year she gives organ concerts in Evangelical churches in Transylvania: Sibiu, Mediaş, Braşov, Sighişoara, Râşnov, etc.