Jacob Reed has been appointed organ scholar for Grace Church, New York, New York, effective September 2017, where he will assist Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, with all aspects of the music program.
He is a Master of Music student at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, New Haven, Connecticut, where he studies organ with Martin Jean. Raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he began his organ studies with Van Quinn at the Chapel of the Cross, he recently became the first student to receive a simultaneous Bachelor of Arts/Master of Arts in musicology from Yale University (double-major in mathematics), studying organ with Thomas Murray and harpsichord with Arthur Haas.
Over the past several years, he has performed across the United States, Europe, and Canada. In addition to his solo, ensemble, and church service playing as an organist, he has also performed frequently as a soloist, accompanist, and chamber musician on piano, harpsichord, and viola da gamba. Since becoming a student at Yale, he has been a member of the Yale Temperament Viol Consort, instrumentalist and vocalist for the Yale Collegium Musicum, and first harpsichordist for the Yale Baroque Opera Project.
