Reggie Thomass
Jazz Program (Piano)

Reggie Thomas is professor of music at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville where he teaches jazz piano, education, history, theory and improvisation and directs combos, big band and vocal jazz ensemble. He is a consultant/clinician for Jazz at Lincoln Center working with their Essentially Ellington Competition and Band Director Academy. Thomas has also served on the summer faculties of several other jazz camps throughout the country including the International Association for Jazz Education Teacher Training Institute; the Birch Creek Music Center in Egg Harbor, WI; Jim Widner Summer Jazz Camps throughout the Midwest; the Eastman School of Music Summer Jazz Camp (teaching vocal jazz); and abroad at the Summer Jazz Academy in Chodziez, Poland.

Thomas is also an active clinician/adjudicator conducting clinics at colleges throughout the country including the Berklee School of Music, California Institute of the Arts, Purdue University and at International Association for Jazz Education Conventions. He has directed All State Jazz Bands, Combos and Jazz Choirs in Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, South Dakota and Tennessee and directed the first ever Missouri All-College Jazz Band.

Reggie continues to appear as guest artist at collegiate jazz festivals around the country including Eastern Washington University, the University of South Florida, and Texas Tech University. He has also performed internationally in Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Milan, Italy, Warsaw and Poznan, Poland; and Senegal, West Africa. Recordings include work with Clay Jenkins, Kim Richmond, Clark Terry/Mike Vax, as well as his own recording. Other performance credits include Karrin Allyson, Hamiett Blueit, Al Grey, Slide Hampton, Eddie Harris, Jimmy Heath, and Nicholas Payton. Reggie has been awarded the Excellence in the Arts award from the Greater St. Louis Arts and Education Council and was named in the Riverfront Times 2005 "Best of St. Louis" issue as Best Jazz Artist.

Jazz Program
Jazz Program, Faculty