Reinbert de Leeuw

He studied music theory and piano at the Amsterdam Conservatoire and composition with Kees van Baaren at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.

[2] He was a regular guest in most European countries (France, Germany including the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, England, Belgium) and the United States (Tanglewood Festival, New World Symphony, Lincoln Center Chamber Music Group New York, in Aspen, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in Minneapolis, and lectured at the Juilliard School of Music in New York), in Japan and Australia.

Productions included works by Stravinsky (The Rake’s Progress), Louis Andriessen (Rosa - A Horse Drama; Writing to Vermeer), György Ligeti (Le Grand Macabre), Claude Vivier (Rêves d’un Marco Polo), Robert Zuidam (Rage d‘Amours) and Benjamin Britten (The Turn of the Screw).

He recorded an album, Socrate, with Barbara Hannigan, a Canadian contemporary opera singer, consisting of largely forgotten works by Erik Satie.

One of his last studio recordings was, however, for Alpha Classics: a piano-accompanied reading of Franz Liszt's own late and devotional Via Crucis, reflecting De Leeuw's faith.