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Kate Reid

Director, Jazz Vocal Artist Intensive

Kate Reid is Director of the Jazz Vocal Performance program and Associate Professor of jazz voice in the Studio Music and Jazz department at the FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC at the University of Miami. Apart from overseeing all aspects of the Jazz Vocal Performance program, Professor Reid directs two of the FROST’s three jazz vocal ensembles -- FROST Extensions and FROST Jazz Vocal I. Dr. Reid coordinates the Jazz Vocal Performance Program and she maintains a full studio of undergraduate and graduate jazz vocal students. In addition to her teaches duties at Frost, Dr. Reid is in demand as a guest artist, conductor, clinician and adjudicator at all-state jazz and choral festivals through the United States and Canada.

While living in California Dr. Reid appeared regularly with her own quartet at jazz venues throughout the Los Angeles area. She has worked with many great jazz musicians in southern California, including guitarists Ron Eschete, Larry Koonse and Bruce Forman, and drummers Roy McCurdy and Jamey Tate. Dr. Reid’s CD, The Love I’m In (2012), features tenor saxophonist Ernie Watts and pianist Otmaro Ruiz. Like her album Sentimental Mood (2008), The Love I’m In features tunes from the Great American songbook and it received extensive airplay on jazz radio stations throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe and South Africa. In addition, Dr. Reid has performed with many renowned artists, including John Clayton, Robin Eubanks, Jon Hendricks, Grady Tate, Mercer Ellington, Don Shelton, Mark Murphy, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Liza Minelli, Mark Murphy, Rosemary Clooney, Dianne Schurr and Dr. Billy Taylor.

Dr. Reid’s multifaceted career also includes work as a studio and session singer in Los Angeles. Her film credits include Planes, Star Trek Into Darkness, Oz-The Great and Powerful, Epic and Men In Black III, featuring the music of composers Danny Elfman, Michael Giacchino, John Powell and Joel McNeely. She has lent her voice to several network television series, to commercial spots and to recordings by such artists as MUSE, X Japan and Josh Groban.

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