Marc Reed

Education

University of North Texas, DMA in Trumpet Performance, Minor in Wind Conducting, 2007
University of North Texas, MM in Trumpet Performance, Minor in Wind Conducting, 2004
Drake University, BM in Trumpet Performance with Emphasis in Jazz, 2002
Drake University, BME in Grades 5-12 Instrumental Music, 2002

Areas of Focus

Brass Performance
Pedagogy

About

Dr. Marc Reed is the Director of the School of Music at Texas Christian University. Reed previously served as the Director of the School of Music and the School of Dance, Theatre, and Arts Administration at The University of Akron in Akron, Ohio. He was also on the faculty at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, where he served as Music Department Chair. His past faculty roles include positions at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Waldorf College, Drake University, and the University of North Texas.

An active member of the International Trumpet Guild, he is the current Director of the ITG Conference Competitions and recently served two elected terms as ITG Secretary. He is the editor of the ITG Journal's Trumpet in the Wind Band column and previously chaired ITG's Youth Competitions and Recording Committee. He's an Artist Faculty Member of the National Trumpet Competition and an Artist/Clinician for the Bach Trumpet Division of the Conn-Selmer Corporation. He has presented clinics at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, Minnesota, New Mexico, Kansas, Colorado, Florida, Texas, and Alabama Music Educators Association Conferences, the Midwest Trumpet Festival, the University of Kentucky Summer Trumpet Institute, the International Trumpet Guild Conference, and the Iowa Bandmasters Association Conference.

His first solo trumpet album, Gone, But Not Forgotten, is available on Mark Records. He is the former Principal Trumpet of the San Juan Symphony Orchestra, Third Trumpet of the Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra, Solo Cornet in the Great Western Rocky Mountain Brass Band, and a member of the University of North Texas Wind Symphony. He can be heard on recordings on the DJ Music, Mark, Klavier, and GIA Windworks labels, including the popular Teaching Music Through Performance in Band series with the UNT Wind Symphony.

Reed holds Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees in Trumpet Performance from the University of North Texas, and bachelor's degrees in Music Education and Trumpet Performance, with a Jazz Emphasis, from Drake University. He studied trumpet with Keith Johnson, John Holt, Richard Giangiulio, and Andrew Classen; and wind conducting with Eugene Corporon, Dennis Fisher, and Sue Samuels.