Reed Gratz
Vice President
Artist Development
Jazz, Pop, R&B and Latin Jazz Music
Keyboardist/composer Reed Gratz, D.M.A., serves as NETunes' Vice President and Director of Artist Development for Jazz, Pop, R&B and Latin Jazz Music.
Reed Gratz holds a doctorate in music (D.M.A.) from the University of Miami and currently serves as the Chairman of the Music Department and Professor of Music at the University of La Verne. Dr. Gratz has previously taught at Washington State University, the University of Miami, Ultrecht Conservatory (Netherlands) and Claremont McKenna College.
He has received numerous honors including a University of La Verne Excellence in Teaching award, a Senior Fulbright Lectureship at the University of Innsbruck, a research grant in African-American music from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a jazz composition grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
In 2000, Dr. Gratz was named University of La Verne Professor of the Year and subsequently awarded the Walt Whitman Distinguished Chair of American Cultural Studies for the 2001 fall semester at Leiden University in the Netherlands.
He has recorded two solo albums (Below Sea Level and Piano Songs) and worked with such artists as Bruce Hornsby, John Patitucci, George Russell, Jeff Healy, Willem Nijholt, Buddy DeFranco, Barbara Morrison, Lanny Morgan, Sonny Wilkinson, Brandon Fields and Herb Alpert.
