Ingo Ernst Reihl was chief conductor of The Minsk Chamber Orchestra between 2001 and 2004, and was a permanent guest conductor for the ensemble between 1993 and 1999. He has conducted many East European and Russian ensembles and choirs, as well as many internationally renowned soloists, on CD, radio and TV broadcasts and in live concert performances. He still leads The Young Orchestra for 80 young musicians, an ensemble he founded in his student years in the mid 1980s. He received the ‘Ruhr award for Art and Science’ in 1987 and was musical director of Small Opera Dusseldorf between 1988 and 1990. He has been an assistant professor of music for the faculty of the Studium Fundamentale at Witten-Herdecke University since 1990, and was made honourary professor of conducting at the Belarusian State Academy for Music in 2001.