Edward Reeve is a London-based conductor, pianist, répétiteur and organist. From 2022 to 2024, Edward worked full time on the Music Staff at the Royal Opera House as a conductor and répétiteur on the Jette Parker Artist Programme. Repertoire for his two seasons included Jephtha, Così fan tutte, La traviata, Don Carlo, Tannhäuser, Das Rheingold, La Bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Turandot, Elektra, Wozzeck and The Rape of Lucretia.
Edward has previously worked at the Bayreuth Festival as Assistant Chorus Master on productions of Der fliegende Holländer, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Götterdämmerung and Parsifal. Edward has also worked regularly at Glyndebourne since 2018, and has worked as an Assistant Conductor at Garsington Opera and Opéra de Rouen Normandie.
Edward was Organ Scholar at Queens’ College, Cambridge, for three years, graduating with a Double Starred First in Music in June 2017. He was subsequently awarded the Aliki Vatikioti Graduate Scholarship to study for a PhD in the orchestration of Wagner’s operas, completed in 2022.