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The American choral conductor, Reid Masters, was named a Rider scholar and graduated Summa cum Laude from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey with Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in Sacred Music (2006). Most recently, he was awarded a Mortensen Fellowship and earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in Choral Conducting from Mason Gross School of the Arts (2015-2018), where he also directed the Rutgers University Choir and taught undergraduate conducting. He studied choral conducting with Joseph Flummerfelt, Andrew Megill, Joe Miller, Sun Min Lee, Dale Warland, and Patrick Gardner in addition to working with Helmuth Rilling.
Acclaimed for his “infectious passion”, Reid Masters has been the Artistic Director of the New Jersey Chamber Singers (July 2007-July 2019), and he is the Co-founder and Assistant Director of the professional chamber choir Kinnara Ensemble (since 2008). Since August 2019, he serves as Assistant Director of Choral Activities at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. He is internationally active as a clinician, leading workshops and master-classes for ensembles such as the Taichung Chamber Singers in Taiwan and the Highgrove Singers in the Bahamas.
As a counter-tenor, Reid Masters has made solo appearances around New Jersey and New York featuring repertoire such as J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion (BWV 244), Gesualdo’s Tenebrae Responsories, Dietrich Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri, Scarlatti’s Stabat Mater, Heinrich Schütz’ Musikalische Exequien, Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, and George Frideric Handel’s Messiah. He has performed with some of the Northeast’s finest Baroque ensembles such as the Brandywine Baroque Band and The Sebastians. In choral settings, he has sung with some of the most prestigious orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of conductors such as Maestros Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, Alan Gilbert, and Nicholas McGegan. He currently lives in Kennesaw, Georgia. |
