Distributed by Thirty Tigers and produced by Reeder himself, the album holds true to his distinct style: slightly quirky, painstakingly honest, and undeniably witty. Nobody wants to be you via Oh Boy on November 10, 2017.Īnd while Nobody wants to be you is the precursor to his full-length (set for a 2018 release), the five-song EP isn’t lacking in tenacity. He’s been featured on the Emmy award-winning show Weeds (“Work Song”). The New Yorker’s Ben Greenman coined him as “one of the foremost outsider artists in modern folk”. The albums garnered glowing reviews publications like No Depression deemed him “brilliant,” and NPR’s Fresh Air compared Reeder to Prine himself. To date, Oh Boy has released all three of Reeder’s records: Dan Reeder (2004), Sweetheart (2005), and This New Century (2009). Prine listened - and signed Reeder to his label, Oh Boy Records. In between all of his artistic accolades, sometime in the early 2000’s, Reeder sent a burned CD to John Prine. He published an overview of his work in 2012, Art Pussies Fear This Book. He has won various visual art awards, participated in numerous exhibitions, led art seminars, and took on a visiting professorship at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste (aka, Germany’s Academy of Fine Arts). He got married and raised three children. Since his move over 30 years ago, Reeder has lived a full life as an esteemed visual artist. Even though his intentions were to finish out his degree in California after a six month stay, Nuremberg won Reeder over and he never returned to school. When her visa expired, Reeder, with just one semester left of university, decided to move to Nuremberg, Germany. He began his creative career at Chapman College, eventually progressing to California State Fullerton, where he met his wife. Born in 1954 Lafayette, Louisiana, he moved to California at six, where he would eventually study art. In addition to learning classical repertoire, her students learn music theory, collaboration, harmonization skills and various styles of music.Reeder is an anomaly in more ways than one. Her teaching emphasizes technique and musicality, as well as cultivating habits needed for success. Reeder teaches private piano and violin, recreational music making and is a certified Musikgarten instructor. She has taught private and group piano at the University of Houston as a graduate assistant and works as a faculty artist for the American Festival for the Arts outreach programs. Reeder served as president of the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) collegiate chapter, twice presented her pedagogical research at the MTNA Collegiate Chapters Pedagogy Symposium and completed extensive training in music pedagogy through a year-long internship. Recipient of the Hirsch Memorial Scholarship Endowment and the Sigma Alpha Iota Collegiate Honor Award, Reeder is also a member of the national music honors society, Pi Kappa Lambda. She has appeared as a concerto soloist with symphony orchestras in both North and South Carolina, as well as the Charlotte Symphony Youth Orchestras. She received her Bachelor of Music from Furman University in South Carolina (magna cum laude). Pianist Joanna Evelyn Reeder received her master’s in piano performance and pedagogy from the University of Houston while studying with Nancy Weems and Dr.
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