DMA - Trumpet Performance, Minor: Wind Conducting
University of North Texas
MM - Trumpet Performance, Minor: Wind Conducting
University of North Texas
BM - Trumpet Performance, Emphasis: Jazz
Drake University
BME - Grades 5 -12 Instrumental Music
Drake University
Brass Performance
Pedagogy
Dr. Marc Reed is the Director of the School of Music at Texas Christian University. Before coming to TCU, Reed was Director of the School of Music and School of Dance, Theatre, and Arts Administration at The University of Akron in Akron, Ohio. He also served on the faculty of Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, where he was the Music Department Chair. Previous faculty appointments include positions at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Waldorf College, Drake University, and the University of North Texas.
Reed is the Secretary of the International Trumpet Guild and is the editor of the ITG Journal’s Trumpet in the Wind Band column, the ITG Conference Competitions Coordinator, an Artist Faculty Member of the National Trumpet Competition, and an Artist/Clinician for the Bach Trumpet Division of the Conn-Selmer Corporation. He previously Chaired ITG’s Junior and Senior Youth Competitions and Recording Committee. He has presented clinics at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic; Minnesota, New Mexico, Kansas, Colorado, Florida, Texas, and Alabama Music Educators Association Conferences; Midwest Trumpet Festival; University of Kentucky Summer Trumpet Institute; International Trumpet Guild Conference; and Iowa Bandmasters Association Conference.
Reed’s first solo trumpet recording, 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 a Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degree in Trumpet Performance from the University of North Texas and a Bachelor’s degree 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.
