Norman Reintamm

Norman Reintamm began his musical career as a chorister at Christ's Church Cathedral in Hamilton, Canada. After his primary musical studies, he went on to undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto and McMaster University. Postgraduate studies were done at the the Royal College of Music in London, England, where he studied under Sir David Willcocks and Sir Norman del Mar. While there, he also studied organ with Sir Richard Popplewell and was awarded the Cobbett-Hurlestone and Theordore Stier Conducting Prizes. He also won prestigious apprenticeships to both the Vancouver Chamber Choir and the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra.

Norman worked in Europe for a number of years, working at the Estonian National Opera as Senior Resident Conductor and at the Estonian Academy of Music as Head of the Opera Department. He also taught at the world-renowned Sibelius Academy in Helsinki in its Opera Department as a coach and conductor. On his return to Canada he took the position of Assistant Conductor of the National Ballet of Canada.

He has guest conducted with orchestras in Canada and Europe and has over 25 operas and ballets in his repertoire.

He has played in recital in both Europe and throughout North America and has numerous choral compositions credits to his name. Most recently, his setting of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis was premiered by the Peterborough Singers at Winchester Cathedral in England.