Mr. Reams
This is Mr. Reams' 15th year of teaching and his second year teaching in the Armstrong School District. He spent his first 13 years teaching instrumental music in the Leechburg Area School District. Currently, Mr. Reams teaches Jr. High Band and Jr. High General Music. He also teaches the high school drum line and Armstrong Taiko, a group that plays Japanese drumming music.
Mr. Reams graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education and earned a Master of Music degree in percussion performance at the University of North Texas. Rob’s percussion teachers include Gary Olmstead, Mark Ford, Ed Soph, Christopher Deane, Ed Smith, and José Aponte. At the University of North Texas, Mr. Reams arranged for and taught the UNT Green Brigade Marching Band’s front ensemble. He performed on multiple recordings with the UNT Wind Symphony, including Allegories, Retrospectives, Passions, Poetics, and Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, Volume 5, Grades 2-3. Rob has recorded with the Keystone Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Jack Stamp, recording Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, Volume 2, Grade 4, Leroy Anderson: Phantom Regiment and other Tales, Tempo di Bourgeois, under the baton of Col. John R. Bourgeois, United States Marine Corps, (Ret) and Grace and Glory: The Music of Jack Stamp. Mr. Reams regularly performs with Pittsburgh Taiko, teaches Armstrong Taiko and Leechburg Taiko, teaches private percussion lessons and occasionally serves as a percussion clinician in the area.