Catherine Reid is a composer, music director, arranger, orchestrator, mother, teacher, gardener, pianist, and painter with shamanic tendencies. She recently retired as a music teacher at Lake George High School to focus more on creating music and musical events (and gardening, painting, meditating, being, etc.). Except for 16 years in NYC, four in Boston, and two in Hartford, she has lived in Glens Falls, New York. Catherine has two amazing children (Leo and Lucy), a cat (Sofia) and a house she loves (unnamed) with a nice new garage.
Much of her life’s work has been an attempt to musically capture the essence of visual and spoken artworks and to explore the many ways music is related to these and other arts - such as rhythm as it relates to pattern or to the spoken word, the 'story' of the artwork, musically capturing the mood of a poem or piece of art, notes as brush strokes, harmony as color, musical versus visual or spoken textures, the arc of a dancer’s body as it relates to music, etc. Catherine's favorite mode of creating music is through collaboration, whether it be with a lyricist, singer, or other composer or with a group of musicians.
The reason for this website is to put Catherine's music out there and to spark creative connections with producers, musicians, visual artists, or people with shamanic tendencies. You can listen to the clips, consider producing the shows, commission new work, or be inspired to collaborate on projects with Catherine and use her music (Contact me for that).
She is grateful to her son Leo for creating this website.
Many thanks to the people and organizations Catherine has worked with:
J. K. Simmons (Singer), Carey Perloff (Playwright and director), David Ives (Librettist), Lonny Price (singer), Jean Stapleton, Elizabeth Swados (composer), David Lang (composer), Grace Jones, Alexa Junge (librettist), Carly Simon (composer), John Turturro (Actor/singer), Phyllis Nagy Librettist), Paul Pines (Poet), Bernice Mennis (Poet), Judith C. Lane (Librettist), Scott Jarrett (singer), Laura Roth (co-writer, singer and director), Vivian Nesbitt (playwright), Zach Grenier (actor), Anthony Giles (lyricist), Gisella Case (singer), Camille West-Wodicka (singer and co-writer), Debbie Gecewicz (singer), Avery Babson (singer), Carol Pines (singer), Milayne Jackson (singer), Adam York (Sax), John Alecci (singer), Anthime Miller (singer and co-writer), Kerr Gooden (Singer), Zach Bissell (singer), Jonathan Newell (pianist), Barry Finn (violinist), Ida Faiella (singer), Neal Herr (Librettist), Barry Carl (singer), Peg Meath (co-writer), Stu Kuby (Lyricist), Anita Hollander (singer), Tania Susi (Violin), Screamin Rachel (singer), Marina MacNeal, North Country Arts, Joseph Papp, Opera Vista, Hyde Collection, Glens Falls Symphony, Charles R. Wood Theater, American Opera Projects, YADDO, Virginia Center for the Arts, Eugene O'Neill, Peabody Conservatory, American Conservatory Theater, White Barn Theater, New York Theater Workshop, Perry Street Theater, New York Shakespeare Festival, LARAC, Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council, Indianapolis Opera Company, Soho Rep Theater, Strand Theater, Pat Phillips, Montclair State University, Radcliffe College, Columbia University.