Reed Gratz is a Professor of Music and department chair at the University of La Verne. He has taught at Washington State University, University of Miami, Utrecht Conservatory in the Netherlands, and is a visiting professor of music, teaching jazz history at Claremont McKenna College. Reed has been awarded a jazz composition grant from the NEA, a research grant in African-American music by the NEH, a Senior Fulbright Lectureship at the University of Innsbruck, and the Excellence in Teaching Award for undergraduate faculty at the University of La Verne. As a pianist, he has played with Herb Alpert, George Russell, Buddy DeFranco, Barbara Morrison, Lanny Morgan, Sonny Wilkinson, John Patitucci, Willem Nijholt, Brandon Fields, Jeff Healey and many other internationally-known musicians. Professor Gratz was recently awarded the Walt Whitman Distinguished Chair of American Culture Studies for the 2001 fall semester at Leiden Universiteitin the Netherlands, by the Fulbright commission. Momentarily Gratz is Vice President
Director of Artists & Repertoire Special Projects - Jazz, World Beat, Pop for Netunes. He also has been added to the Advisory Board of The American Jazz Institute (2005).
