Ángel Reyes

Ángel Reyes (died November 17, 1988 was a Cuban violinist.

In New York City during 1933, Reyes was the principal violinist of the Thirteenth Sound Group of Havana, with which he recorded Julian Carrillo’s Preludio a Colón (Prelude to Christopher Columbus) on the Columbia record label.

Reyes taught at the University of Michigan and Northwestern University. He performed with the Northwestern Piano Trio (formed in 1959) with pianist Gui Mombaerts and cellist Dudley Powers.

At one time he owned the famous Lipinski Stradivarius violin, on which he played Glazunov's Violin Concerto in November 1942 with the Havana Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Massimo Freccia, as well as with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy. He also owned a violin by Carlo Bergonzi, known as the "Kreisler Bergonzi”.