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Fri, Sep 22nd, 8-10pm, Concert – Montreal’s Michael Reinhart – singer-songwriter, urban folk & finger-style guitar
"Michael Reinhart is quite the Renaissance man – stage designer, artist, composer, photographer, singer/songwriter. He shines in the latter role here, delivering an eloquent collection of quietly haunting and deeply personal folk. His talented accompanists include Jeff Bird (Cowboy Junkies), Noah Zacharin, Alison Wedding, and noted Vancouver cellist Peggy Lee, whose work adds graceful atmospherics, as does violin and accordion. Reinhart's fluent finger-style guitar playing also shines. He is unafraid to stretch out, with many songs pushing six-plus minutes in an hour-plus album. It is all time well-spent." KERRY DOOLE, NEW CANADIAN MUSIC, May 14 2013.
In 2008, Michael composed the original music score for the award-winning feature film ‘Before Tomorrow’. http://www.isuma.tv/beforetomorrow His music was also included in the documentary ‘Kiviak vs Canada’, a documentary by renowned director Zacharias Kunuk. Animation film-maker Masoud Raouf has used Michael’s music twice now in his films.
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Michael Reinhart • Biography
Michael Reinhart, a graduate of The Ontario College of Art, has wide
& varied experience in the worlds of both interdisciplinary/visual art, & music
& performance. Since 1982, Michael has collaborated extensively with a variety of other musicians, as well as choreographers, dancers, poets & directors in Toronto, Montréal, Vancouver, Edmonton, New York & Europe, primarily as a composer/musician, but also as lighting/stage designer, videographer & photographer.
He has released five albums; ‘Woman As Landscape’ (2000), an instrumental soundtrack for a contemporary dance work; ‘Quaraaluktuq’ (2003), a collaboration with 9 Inuit singers (Inikatuatit, Susan Avingaq, Rhonda Uttak); ‘Cyprus Songs’ (2011), a collection of 14 improvised, instrumental guitar compositions, recorded in Limassol, Cyprus in 2009; ‘lost&found’ (2011), 11 original songs; & the most recent solo album ‘eCHO’ (2013), 12 original ‘urban folk’ songs. ‘Qabaret Quaraaluktuq’, a multidisciplinary performance based on the album of the same name, was presented at O PatroVys (2003) & Théâtre La Chapelle in Montréal in 2004.
In 2008, Michael composed the original music score for the award-winning feature film ‘Before Tomorrow’. His music was also included in the documentary ‘Kiviak vs Canada’, a documentary by renowned director Zacharias Kunuk. Animation film-maker Masoud Raouf has used Michael’s music twice now in his films.
He has subsequently collaborated with dancer Lin Snelling on the projects ‘loop thing’ at the Fluid Festival, at the Grand Theatre, Calgary in 2009; ‘ROOM Residency’ in Vancouver in 2010; ‘Performing Book’ with Lin & Shelagh Keeley in Limassol in 2009 as well as at the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton in September 2011; ‘ReDirect’ in 2012, with dancers Peter Bingham, Rob Kitsos & Lin Snelling at the Timms Centre For the Arts in Edmonton. The latter collaboration, under the name ‘Resolutions’, has been performed on several different occasions at EDAM in Vancouver over the last ten years.
He’s performed, over the last eight years in numerous Montréal & Edmonton venues, & across Canada at several events & two BC tours. He’s shared stages with artists such as Jon Brooks, Annabelle Chvostek, Neema, & The Bombadils. He also regularly improvises in the trio Status Quoi with Jérémi Roy, David Ryshpan along with various invited singers & dancers, their latest project being ‘versing’ at StageLab at the Timms Theatre in August 2016, with Lin Snelling.
Another recent foray into Edmonton culture was a collaboration with Gerry Morita this summer at Churchill Square in ‘RV There Yet’, a traveling contemporary dance project. Most recent projects include performances in the ‘Physical Therapy’ cabaret at the FLUID Festival in Calgary in late October 2016 & RV There Yet at the Dancing on the Edge Festival in Vancouver in July 2017. A new album of original songs & instrumentals is in the works.
Reinhart’s music has received a good deal of airplay on CBC & college radio over the years, having reached the Top Ten Folk/Roots/Blues charts several times in several Canadian cities including Edmonton, Toronto, Halifax & Victoria. His instrumental recordings are often used by choreographers, film-makers, broadcasters & dancers.
Michael continues to perform & tour as a singer-songwriter & finger-style guitarist across Canada & the UK, & currently lives & works in Edmonton Alberta, as well as in Montréal, Québec in Canada.
Reviews:
"It's just one big musical gift of pensive, well-thought out melodies with fascinating lyrics and stirring examples of fine musicianship and song craft."
JOHN APICE, NO DEPRESSION, ROOTS/FOLK, June 28 2013.
"Michael Reinhart makes country-folk sound jazzy on his latest release, Lost & Found... Reinhart is finally gracing Canada with his first solo release, and it's an immensely pleasurable listen."
RANDI BEERS, EXCLAIM! November 18 2011.
"Michael Reinhart is quite the Renaissance man – stage designer, artist, composer, photographer, singer/songwriter. He shines in the latter role here, delivering an eloquent collection of quietly haunting and deeply personal folk. His talented accompanists include Jeff Bird (Cowboy Junkies), Noah Zacharin, Alison Wedding, and noted Vancouver cellist Peggy Lee, whose work adds graceful atmospherics, as does violin and accordion. Reinhart's fluent finger-style guitar playing also shines. He is unafraid to stretch out, with many songs pushing six-plus minutes in an hour-plus album. It is all time well-spent."
KERRY DOOLE, NEW CANADIAN MUSIC, May 14 2013.
