Artistic Team
Adam Reinwald
Artistic Director
Adam Reinwald is a nationally recognized vocal chamber artist and conductor, and is in demand as a coach and strategist for small- to mid-size arts organizations, focusing on new media and virtual/digital branding. Adam combines artistic and administrative leadership from over two decades of experience in the nonprofit arts sector.
With the 2021 appointment as Artistic and Managing Director of Kantorei, a chamber choir in the Twin Cities, Adam builds on an extensive choral arts background that includes work with the National Lutheran Choir, and nearly two decades with the acclaimed vocal ensemble Cantus. Recent groundswell presentations at Chorus America, the American Choral Directors Association, and the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network have included “Making Video Accessible for your Community Chorus”, and “Building an Interfaith Programming Model.”
Tony Rangel
Assistant Conductor
Tony Rangel, originally from northern IL, now calls MN home, where he lives with his wife and daughter.
Tony has directed high school choral programs at Columbia Heights and Armstrong high schools and has sung in a variety of Twin Cities Ensembles. He currently is the choral director at Stillwater Middle School, and writes online professional development and graduate-level courses for music educators via Forward Motion Online Learning.
After choir, Tony's second love is the lake, where you will often find him fishing, skiing, and paddle boarding.
Axel Theimer - Founder and Artistic Director Emeritus
Kantorei’s founder was born in St. Johann in Tirol, Austria, where music has been part of his life from the very beginning.
Dr. Theimer was a member of the Vienna Choir Boys from age seven until voice change. He received much of his training in Vienna and completed his studies at the University of Minnesota with a MFA in Choral Conducting and a DMA in Vocal Performance.
Dr. Theimer was the Director of Choral Activities at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University for 52 years. Additionally, Dr. Theimer is founder and music director of Amadeus Chamber Symphony, a chamber orchestra for Central Minnesota musicians and audiences and is music director of the National Catholic Youth Choir. He is on the faculty, and is currently Executive Director of The VoiceCare Network. In 2001, he received the ACDA-MN Choir Director of the Year Award and, in 2004, he was inducted to the Minnesota Music Educators Association’s MMEA Hall of Fame. He is the 2011 recipient of the ACDA-MN F. Melius Christiansen Lifetime Achievement Award.
Board of Directors
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Michael Karaman
PRESIDENT
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Joe Polta
VICE PRESIDENT
Singers
