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Dr. Thomas Reed is Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Music at Ashland University in Ohio, where he teaches clarinet, saxophone, oboe, music theory and woodwind techniques. He plays bass clarinet with the Akron Symphony, Principal Clarinet with the Ashland Symphony Orchestra, tenor saxophone with the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, and has performed with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Blossom Festival Orchestra, Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra, Dayton Philharmonic, Youngstown Symphony, Blossom Festival Band, and the Jazz Unit. He has been soloist with the Akron, Mansfield, and Ashland Symphonies and performs on CD’s from the Akron Symphony, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, and the Paul Ferguson Jazz Orchestra. His clarinet CD “Mutually Inclusive” was released in 2008 on Capstone Records. Reed holds degrees from the Ohio State University, the University of Michigan, and University of Akron. His teachers have included Donald Sinta, James Pyne, Howie Smith, David Bell, George Pope, Hank Marr, and Rich Shanklin.