Dr.
Vance Reese is an Associate Professor of Music at Brevard College; Organist
at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, Brevard; and Co-Principal Double Bassist
at the Asheville Symphony Orchestra. He has degrees from Southern Methodist
University, Scarritt College (Nashville), and has been accompanying singers since
he was a teenager. He is involved in chamber
music work, sings on occasion, rarely gets to dance, and has served as organist
(and sometimes choir director) in various houses of worship. Except for the pandemic years, he has been the afternoon collaborative keyboardist for Wildacres since 2003. He undertook
a two-year intensive study of dreams at the Haden Institute and has subsequently
led different groups and classes in this work. He currently lives in Brevard
with his wife, Jean.
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