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Reed Gratz

Reed Gratz is a Professor of Music at the University of La Verne. He has taught at Washington State University, Utrecht Conservatory in the Netherlands, Universities of Miami, Innsbruck, and Leiden, and is a visiting professor of music at Claremont McKenna College. He is on the Advisory Board of the American Jazz Institute along with founder Mark Masters, Mort Sahl, and Lee Konitz. Reed has been awarded a jazz composition grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a research grant in African-American music by the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Senior Fulbright Lectureship at the University of Innsbruck, and the Excellence in Teaching Award for undergraduate faculty at the University of La Verne. He has composed music for a dozen plays and films. Four of his recent CDs are Below Sealevel and Piano, View From the South and The Reed Gratz Band featuring Michael O’Neill. In 2001, Professor Gratz held the Walt Whitman Distinguished Chair of American Culture Studies at the Universiteit Leiden through the Fulbright Foundation. He has received three Who’s Who Among American Teachers awards since 2002. As a pianist, Reed has played with Herb Alpert, George Russell, Bruce Hornsby, Bill Watrous, Lanny Morgan, Sir Willem Nijholt, Gerri van der Klei, Barbara Morrison, John Patitucci, The Paul Taylor Dancers, and many others.



Reed Gratz may be contacted at [email protected],www.reedgratz.com, and www.tempoduluproductions.com, his cds are for sale at www.cdbaby.com/cd/reedgratz