Marc Reese

Trumpet player Marc Reese has been named the new assistant dean of the Conservatory of Music at Lynn University, Boca Raton, Florida. The head of the conservatory’s brass department since 2005, Reese will continue in that capacity in addition to his new role.

As assistant dean, Reese will work closely with Dean Jon Robertson to support the academic and campus activities of the conservatory’s faculty and its more than 90 student artists. He will also manage the program’s public performance calendar and supervise the conservatory staff. In addition to these duties, Reese will continue in his role as the advisor of graduate students studying in the conservatory’s MM in Performance program as well as those working toward a certificate in professional performance.

An internationally acclaimed trumpeter, Reese has spent over a decade as a member of the Empire Brass, performed with the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland and Boston Symphony Orchestras and appears as soloist throughout the US and abroad.  Reese is one of three members of the Empire Brass to serve on the conservatory faculty. Greg Miller, horn, and Kenneth Amis, tuba, are the other two faculty members that play alongside Reese in Empire Brass. Reese is also the editor of the ITG Journal's Chamber Music Connection column.

Reese spent his formative years studying at the Juilliard School and Tanglewood Institute and received his BM and MM degrees from Boston University and the New England Conservatory. Reese’s wife, Lisa Leonard, is a member of the piano faculty and director of the conservatory’s annual New Music Festival.

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