Dr. Vance Reese
Associate Professor of Music/ Coordinator of Piano Proficiency
About Dr. Vance Reese
Dr. Reese has enjoyed a long performance career as an organist, cantor, bass player, and collaborative pianist. He currently serves as the co-principal bassist for the Asheville Symphony, cantor and keyboardist at Congregation Beth Ha Tephila in Asheville, and organist at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Brevard.
He also is an avid opera accompanist and repetiteur, and has worked in this capacity for the Asheville Lyric Opera, the Janiec Opera Company, and Opera Creations, an organization he co-founded. His scholarly interests include world religions and dream analysis, and these interests have led him to create new courses in Sacred Music and Ritual, Music and Myths in Dreamwork, and several linked learning courses.
Education
D.M. in Organ and Sacred Music, Indiana University, Bloomington
M.M. in Organ and Sacred Music, Scarritt College
B.M. in Organ Performance, Southern Methodist University
Certificate of Two-Year Course in Dream Work, Haden Institute
Professional Activities
Recent Publications
“The King, the Queen and the Bee.” Music by Johannes Brahms; Libretto by Vance Reese; Produced by The Colonial Theater Opera Club, Keene, New Hampshire
