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Irma Reeder was born into a musical family, coming from generations
of Ozark mountain musicians including several fiddle makers. Singing
melody and harmony with her family long before grade school, her
mother taught her to play an open-G guitar using a pencil as a noter
before her hand was big enough to reach around a guitar neck. She
taught her first guitar student when she was 10, and has been
teaching and directing vocal and instrumental ensembles since a
teenager. Irma has taught music privately, and in school and church
settings. She studied vocal performance for three decades, and has
also studied conducting. She has been soprano soloist with symphony
and theater groups, jazz quartets, and performed with chorales and
light opera and opera companies. Irma is music administrator and
choir director at Faith Bible Church in Albuquerque, leads the Music
for All Seasons duet, and the Wing & a Prayer cowboy/country
Gospel/old-time band. She is the 2009 Colorado State Mountain
Dulcimer champion.
Irma teaches voice, guitar, Celtic harp and mountain
dulcimer privately, and harp and mountain dulcimer through
University of New Mexico Continuing Education and Apple Mountain
Music Store. She also plays piano, keyboard, banjo, mandolin,
ukulele, bowed psaltery, bodhran (Irish frame drum), tongue drum and
marimbula (a giant thumb piano bass). Irma loves teaching and
welcomes the opportunity to work with students of all ages and
backgrounds to help them attain their musical goals.
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