Areas I Teach
Anne McKee Reed, Assistant Professor of Voice and Voice Area Coordinator, is currently serving as Music Department Co-Chair. In addition to overseeing the music department's voice area activities and teaching vocal performance courses, she produces the music department鈥檚 annual musical or opera, collaborates with the Theatre Department as music director, co-leads a short-term travel course to Austria and Hungary, and enjoys welcoming first year students to campus through instructing a First Year Community and First Year Advising.
Anne McKee Reed, soprano, has been heard across the Pacific Northwest, performing on many opera, musical theater, and concert stages. She has been seen singing the roles of Sagredo and Marie d鈥橫edici in Portland Opera鈥檚 production of (and the commercial recording of) Philip Glass鈥� Galileo Galilei, as well as other P.O. productions including Ravel鈥檚 L鈥檈nfant et les Sortileges (Shepherdess, Bat, Owl), Cavalli鈥檚 La Calisto(Il Destino, Satirino), Mozart鈥檚 The Magic Flute (First Spirit) and Weill鈥檚 Street Scene(Jennie Hildebrand). Other favorite engagements include Yum-yum in Mock鈥檚 Crests production of The Mikado, having previously been featured with the same company in productions of Ruddigore (Rose Maybud), H.M.S. Pinafore (Josephine), and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Ann Page) as well as Opera Plus Coeur d鈥橝lene鈥檚 Le Nozze di Figaro(Susanna). She has also graced the stage of several productions with the Broadway Rose Theatre Company including the original A Very Merry PDXmas, The Melody Lingers On and Celebrate Home. She has also had the pleasure of recording original works by former Pacific colleague and composer Timothy Stevens. Ms. Reed holds a Master of Music degree from Portland State University and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Redlands, and originally hails from the beautiful central coast of California.