Jerome Reed 

Music

Professor

Biography

Jerome Reed, the Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Piano at Lipscomb University, is a master pedagogue who is an inaugural member of Steinway & Sons Teacher Hall of Fame. His students have won many competitions, including first place in the Nashville International Piano Competition, Tennessee Music Teachers Association competitions, and numerous other auditions. 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 has given recitals and masterclasses throughout the U.S. and in Taiwan, Japan, Korea, China, Poland, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Italy, England, Hungary, and Uruguay. His performances in the U.S. and abroad of Charles Ives’s Concord Sonata, incorporated a pre-recital lecture, a multimedia presentation, and readings from Ives’s Essays Before a Sonata. A champion of contemporary music, his recordings include works for piano and tape for Capstone Records, sonatas for flute and piano with Deanna Little, and Elizabeth Austin’s Rose Sonata. He has received several awards, including the Distinguished Service Award from the Tennessee Music Teachers Association as well as the TMTA Teacher of the Year. In 2024 he received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching at Lipscomb University. In 2025 he was installed as an MTNA Foundation Fellow.
     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 in Paris.