Dr. Jerome Reed performs in Renaissance Center recital series Oct. 6

Release Date: 9/30/2003. Expired: 10/6/2003

Dr. Jerome Reed, concert pianist and professor of Music at David Lipscomb University, will present a program of music by contemporary American composer Elizabeth Austin as part of The Renaissance Center’s Recitals in the Rotunda series on Oct. 6.

The free recital begins at 7 p.m. in the rotunda of the center in Dickson and also will feature actress Wesley Paine, director of The Parthenon in Nashville.

Reed teaches private piano and composition as well as classroom courses in piano literature and pedagogy at Lipscomb. He received his DMA and MM degrees in piano performance from the Catholic University of America, where he was a student of Bela Borzomenyi-Nagy. He received his BM in music from Middle Tennessee State University.

Reed began his piano studies at age 11 at the Blair Academy of Music at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, receiving the Myra Jackson Blair Scholarship for four consecutive years.

He has served as a guest recitalist, clinician, adjudicator and lecturer throughout the Southeast and his performance schedule averages about 20 concerts, lectures and recitals every year.

Reed has performed extensively throughout the United States, South America and Europe and his work has been broadcast over U.S., German and Australian public radio.

Reed is one of four people chosen to receive the prestigious Avalon Award for Creative Excellence this fall by Lipscomb University. Also receiving the award in November will be entertainer Pat Boone, artist Anna Jaap and writer Mark Jarman.

Paine has studied museum administration at the University of Oklahoma and is a founding member of Theatre Parthenos, a non-profit theatre group that produces ancient Greek plays on the steps of the Parthenon.

She is heard regularly on the New Life Station reading from the writings of Author’s Journal contributor Karen Harlow, who provides insight into God’s word through the experiences of daily life.

Baltimore native Austin, who is expected to attend the recital, won a national music composition competition at age 16 for her composition Christ Being Raised. She received her early musical training at the Peabody Preparatory Department and was a student of the late Grace Newsom Cushman. As a music major at Goucher College in Maryland, Austin received a scholarship to study with Nadia Boulanger at the Conservatoire Americaine in France.

She served as a composition/theory teacher on the pre-college level at various preparatory schools in the Hartford, Conn., area and developed an eight-semester curriculum for Musicianship based on Cushman’s teachings. She earned her Master’s Degree in Music while serving on the faculty of the Hartt School at the University of Hartford.

While working on her Ph.D., Austin won first prize in the David Lipscomb Electronic Music Competition for Klavier Double in 1983. She spends part of every year in Mannheim, Germany, where she and her husband, Gerhard, direct the Mannheim Program for Bilingual Careers.

Austin’s works include Wilderness Symphony No. 1 and Lighthouse for orchestras; Cantata Beatitudes for wind ensemble and chorus; solo chamber pieces such as Gathering Threads for clarinet, Ghosts for bassoon, Klavier Double for piano, Lighthouse I for harpsichord; ensemble chamber pieces such as Circling for violin, cello and piano and To Begin for brass quintet; and her vocal works include The Master’s Hands, Mass of Thanksgiving and Christ Being Raised for choruses and A Birthday Bouquet and Sonnets from the Portuguese for solo voice.

In a 2000 interview with music writer Bruce Duffie, Austin said she was delighted when she heard Reed present the first performance of Klavier Double and then talk about the things she had intended for the listener to hear.

“Years ago, I won first prize in the David Lipscomb Composition Competition for Klavier Double. The young man who first played it, Dr. Jerome Reed in Nashville, gave a talk and analysis at Catholic University of America, and I was in the audience,” Austin told Duffie. “It was one of the delights of my life to hear him expound on exactly what I had hoped was clear. I don’t like to hide something that should be an aural quote. What’s the point of hiding it? If you’re quoting something, you want the listener to be engaged. You want them to see the connection and be able to hear it. So Dr. Reed told what I had done, and then went further! The subconscious makes connections and he had ferreted those out.”

The Recitals in the Rotunda series at The Renaissance Center is a series of free concerts every other Monday featuring professional musicians, faculty and accomplished students from area universities and other volunteer and professional groups.

For more information on the series, call (615)740-5600. The Renaissance Center is an arts and technology education and performing arts center at 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson, just 35 miles west of Nashville on Interstate 40 at exit 172.

Visit the Events - Concerts and Recitals page for more about musical performances.

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