Music Department
Performance & Private Instruction
Performance
Reed attracts many students who are accomplished musicians. Performance activities sponsored by the department are open to all members of the community. A significant percentage of the student body participates in music-making on the camps—as solo players or singers, in chamber music ensembles, or in the ensembles conducted by faculty members. Registration procedures for lessons and ensembles are explained in the class sechedule each term. A number of student recitals and concerts by the ensembles are held each year. The Friday at Four series usually features on each program several students who take private lessons. The chamber orchestra performs a concert in Kaul Audtiorium near the end of each semester; one of these includes a performance with the winner of the annual concerto competition.
The department also helps organize and coach chamber ensembles, which are availabe by audition for students interesting in playing together in small groups. In addition, coaching sessions with members of the music performance staff can sometimes be substituted for private lessons with department approval.
Visit the Performance Gallery, featuring photos from recent Reed performances.
Private Instruction
Reed offers individual instruction in guitar, harpsichord, piano, voice, and all orchestral instruments, as well as jazz and some ethnic instruments. Our teachers, all of whom are accomplished performers, are selected from the best available in the Portland community. Some are members of the Oregon Symphony, the Portland Opera Orchestra, the Portland Baroque Orchestra, and various chamber, jazz and ethnic ensembles in the area, and have appeared as solo artists with these groups.
Visit the Prexy Gallery, featuring photos from rehearsals, lessons, and practice in Prexy.
Our private music instructors include:
» Craig Jones (Jazz Piano)
» Jeff Homan (Jazz Flute and Saxophone)
» Vicki Gunn (Fiddle, Viola and Violin)
» Phil Baldino (Saxophone)
» Gayle Neuman (Recorder)
» Marcy Lohman (Flute)
» Dunja Jennings (Clarinet)
» Pablo Izquierdo (Oboe)
» Lyle Dockendorff (Bassoon)
» Joe Berger (French Horn)
» Aaron Lavere (Euphonium)
» Craig Gibson (Trumpet)
» David Bryan (Trombone)
» Bill Hunt (Violin and Viola)
» John Hubbard (Cello)
» Don Hermanns (Double Bass)
» Kevin Deitz (Jazz Bass)
» Julia Banzi (Flamenco Guitar)
» Scott Kritzer (Classical Guitar)
» Deborah Cleaver (Piano)
» Renato Fabbro (Piano)
» Susan Smith (Piano)
» Denise Van Leuven (Piano)
» Bonnie Garrett (Piano and Harpsichord)
» Lee Garrett (Pipe Organ)
» Jenny Lindner (Harp)
» Timothy Scott (Viola da Gamba)
» Barbara Irvin and John Vergin (Voice)
» Nisha Joshi (Northern Classical Indian Singing, Tabla, Sitar)
» Jan deWeese (Mandolin and Banjo)
» Brett Pascal (Percussion)
Reed also has instructors for a variety of Chinese instruments. Instructors of other instruments are added to the staff as need arises.