The Rhode Island Philharmonic has named Ruth Reinhardt as its next music director.
Originally from Saarbrücken, the daughter of two medical doctors, she studied with Alan Gilbert at Juilliard and won an assistantship at the Dallas Symphony. This is her first music directorship.
She is 36 and is managed by Jonathan Brill at Opus3.
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