As an improvising performer, Reeve received critical recognition as the improvising percussionist/violist in the particularly highly acclaimed United States based reincarnation of Musica Elettronica Viva for 6 years and performed internationally along with Frederic Rzewski, Garrett List and Richard Teitelbaum. Larger formations of this ensemble included Anthony Braxton, Jon Gibson, Karl Berger, Roscoe Mitchell and Alvin Curran.
As a member of MEV, was a composer in residence at Antioch College, Ohio, and there taught composition and improvisation.
He was a performing member of the Tone Roads Ensemble along with Malcolm Goldstein, Philip Corner, James Tenney, George Flynn, Joshua Rifkin, Archie Shepp and others.
He was a performing member of the SEM Ensemble, the SEM Orchestra, the Creative Associates at the University of Buffalo and Fluxus.
He has written and performed music for many dance companies including the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, the Nancy Meehan Dance Company, James Waring, Elaine Summers, the Judson Memorial Dance Series, and the Grand Union Dance Co.
He has performed written or improvised music with artists including Perry Robinson, Kirk Nurock, David Tudor, Julius Eastman, Lee Konitz, Bobby Moses, Max Neuhaus, Eric Salzman, Borah Bergman, James Fulkerson, Cornelius Cardew, Gordon Mumma, David Behrman, Cleve Pozar, Michael Sahl, John Cage, Michael Kamen and Mark Snow.
While working for the New York State Council on the Arts as the specialist in New Music and Jazz, Reeve was instrumental in bringing about a ten-fold increase in the State's allocation for this area of music. He became the founding Executive Director and President of the Center for New Music in New York City, an organization devoted to fostering the art music of our time through its widely disseminated Calendar of New Music, and the production of concerts and broadcasts.
Reeve produced and hosted for 10 years a weekly 3 hour radio show on WBAI-FM in New York City which was devoted entirely to current "art" music. Some of the artists interviewed were Pierre Boulez, Earle Brown, Steve Lacey, Charlie Haden, Meredith Monk, Carla Bley, Chou Wen-Chung, Pandit Pran Nath, and LaMonte Young.
Concerts he produced included the works, participation or performances by Anthony Braxton, George Lewis, Maryanne Amacher, MEV, Cornelius Cardew's AMM Ensemble, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Kirk Nurock, Perry Robinson, Karl Berger, John Tilbury, The Unholy Modal Rounders, Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Luciano Berio, Jimmy Garrison, Lee Konitz, Alvin Lucier etc.
Being a composer, Reeve also works in the related fields of computer music, audio engineering, recording session producing, and audio CD mastering and editing for both major and independent labels.
Performing as a percussionist,timpanist and violist, Reeve has performed in all of the major concert halls of NYC and many venues throughout the world. As a recording artist he can be heard on Opus One, Wergo,Pablo Records, Sean Fine Arts Editions and others.
List of Compositions by Gregory Reeve
Red Gongs for 17 Instruments
Messier 1, NGC 1952 for solo flute
4 String Quartets
Ptarmigan Wall for Violin and Percussion (one player)
Rings for Solo Cello
All the Colours in the Universe for Soprano, Oboe and Cello
Quartet for Flute and Strings
Orchives for Piano and DX-7 Synthesizer (one player)
Fantasia for Piano
Sextet for Flute, Clarinet, Violin,Piano, Contrabass and Percussion
SS 433 for 18 Instruments
Soul Snatcher for solo percussionist / drummer and electronic music for radio broadcast
Sonata for Violin and Piano
Movement for String Quartet
Concerto for Orchestra
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Sonata for Piano
Electronic Concerto for Violin and Orchestra infinitely long and perpetually asynchronous
Ferquation #2 for 2 Solo Drummers,.Painter, Tape and Symphony Orchestra
Blue Balls for mixed instrumental ensemble
Quartet for Winds
Concerto for Trombone and Small Ensemble (work in progress)
Low resolution short samples of soundfiles of Reeve's music will be soon
downloadable from the Audio, MIDI and Notation Image Files page of this web
site in Real Audio bit-streaming format, crescendo, .wav or .au format.
NoteView and MIDI files will also be posted there.
