Jerome Reed 

Music

Professor

Biography

Jerome A. Reed is the Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Piano at Lipscomb University. He has
performed extensively on several continents, giving recitals and masterclasses in Taiwan, Japan, Korea,
China, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Italy, England, Hungary, and Uruguay. He has performed at
Steinway Hall in New York. He has recorded works for piano and tape for Capstone Records and in 2009
released a recording of sonatas for flute and piano with Deanna Little. In August 2014 Navona Records
released his recording of Elizabeth Austin’s Rose Sonata. He has given over fifty performances in the U.S.
and abroad of Charles Ives’s Concord Sonata, incorporating a multimedia presentation and readings from
Ives’s writings. In 2003 he was awarded the Avalon Award for Creative Excellence, in 2006 he received the
Distinguished Service Award from the Tennessee Music Teachers Association, and in 2010 he was named
Teacher of the Year by the same organization. In 2019 he was inducted into the Steinway Teachers Hall of
Fame in New York. In 2024 he received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching at Lipscomb
University.
His students have won many competitions, including first place in Tennessee Music Teachers Association
competitions, the Nashville International Piano Competition, the Tennessee Tech Young Artist Competition,
and Clavierfest at MTSU. His student piano trio placed third at the Music Teachers National Association
Competition in New York in 2012. He has served on the faculty of the InterHarmony Music Festival in Italy
and the East/West International Piano Festival in China. He is also chair of the music division of the
Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts. He is a frequent adjudicator at local, state, and national
competitions.
He holds the D.M.A. and M.M. in piano performance from The Catholic University of America, where he
was a student of Béla Börzörményi-Nagy. He also studied with Jeanne-Marie Darré at the Conservatoire de
Musique de Nice and coached with Yvonne Loriod.