Nicholas Reed

About Nicholas Reed

Nicholas Reed has performed as a conductor, percussion soloist and chamber musician at numerous festivals in Europe, Japan, Southeast Asia, Mongolia and the Ukraine, as well as for a number of radio stations. He is a lecturer in percussion and ensemble conducting at the Freiburg University of Music and at the music academies in Basel and Zurich (ZHdK). He has been a guest lecturer at leading music academies in Europe, Asia and the USA.
Nicholas Reed has been a permanent member of Ensemble Aventure Freiburg since 2015. He regularly teaches at the Federal Academy for Musical Youth Education in Trossingen as well as at further education and training courses in Germany and abroad.
Reed studied percussion at the Royal College of Music, London, at the Conservatoire Supérieur National de Musique et de Danse, Paris, and at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. He studied conducting with Johannes Schlaefli, James Lowe and Peter Rundel, among others. His most recent research projects deal with rehearsal pedagogy and the teaching of new music in the field of amateur music.
Nicholas Reed