Reuben Blundell is Music Director of the Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra near Philadelphia and the Riverside Orchestra in New York City. An educator, music historian, producer and researcher, Blundell has released four widely-praised albums on the New Focus Recordings label. On them, he conducts previously unrecorded American works with the Gowanus Arts Ensemble (a group he founded) and with the Lansdowne Symphony. The latest CD, released in May 2021, features 20th century American women composers, and is the beginning of a new series. The first two were with the Gowanus Arts Ensemble, a group he founded for his ongoing project to uncover worthy repertoire. His recent editions of the Symphonies of Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, was published by Artaria, and the first of the two symphonies was promptly recorded by the Czech Chamber Philharmonic conducted by Michael Halázs for the Naxos label.

With the Riverside Orchestra, Reuben has hosted soloists from the New York Philharmonic, the Cincinnati Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and beyond. He became the orchestra's first Music Director in 2016, at the invitation of the orchestra’s founder, Dr. Ephraim Rubin, and after several years as the orchestra’s principal conductor.

His violin studies included two teachers, Mark Mogilevski and Alice Waten, who were David Oistrakh students, as well as with Carl Pini and Jane Hazelwood. His conducting studies included extensive work with Jorma Panula, Michael Jinbo at the Monteux School, and with Neil Varon at the Eastman School of Music where he completed his doctorate. Other teachers he worked with included Michael Tilson Thomas and Marin Alsop.

A Chelsea Symphony conductor and violinist 2012-23, he conducted numerous premieres, concertos, and symphonic works. In 2020, he was conductor and creative lead for their virtual performance of Aaron Dai’s The Night Before Christmas with John Lithgow.