Reese Land to University of Louisville

Reese Land is the recently appointed trumpet professor at the University of Louisville beginning in the fall of 2015.  

After graduating from Lenoir-Rhyne College (University), he became an active chamber musician, performing with groups that include The Brass Company, a rural residency brass ensemble of the National Endowment of Arts.  With this ensemble Land performed numerous school concerts, formal recitals, and clinics in Kentucky and in surrounding states for a decade.

Reese completed his graduate studies at the University of Louisville and the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.  His most influential teachers have been Tim Phillips, Vincent DiMartino, Arnold Jacobs, Ronald Romm, Michael Ewald, and Michael Tunnell. Even before graduating, he served as a trumpet professor at the University of Southern Mississippi and, most recently, at Campbellsville University where he served eight years. While at Campbellsville, Land received the Professor of the Year Award twice from the Fourth District of the Kentucky Music Educators Association.

An avid performer of many different styles of music, Land performs regularly in a large variety of venues as a soloist or with ensembles such as Orchestra Kentucky Bowling Green, the Brass Band of Louisville, the Kentucky Baroque Trumpets, the Don Kreckel Jazz Orchestra, and a host of others.  He has performed with such artists as Doc Severinsen, Mannheim Steamroller, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Neil Sedaka, and Joshua Bell.  Recently in April 2015, he had the opportunity to perform as a soloist with the Eastern High School Band of Louisville in Carnegie Hall in New York City.  

Dr. Land is married to Paola Manrique-Land, a professional violinist and string orchestra director at Bardstown City Schools, KY and they live in Louisville with their son, Alex.

Source: Mark J. Lynn, Asst. Director of Bands & Instructor of Trumpet, University of Louisville