Beverly Reece started playing piano when she was 2 ½ years old. She played Christmas songs with both hands. When she was 3 ½ her grandmother took her to a country Babtist Church where Bev played her favorite “Theres and Old Piano Behind the Green Door”. A song about a house of prostitution. That ended her career at that church forever.

When she was eight years old, she started violin and regular piano lessons. Phillips University in Enid, Oklahoma tested her and the found had perfect pitch and teste a prodigy in math and writing stories. When he was fourteen years old she gave piano lessons. She taught herself to play the organ. She was hired to be organist at Malden Methodist Church until she started college. Cape First Baptist hired her as their organist. Through the years she has played at the Episcopal Church. First Christian, Evangelical Church of Christ and Centenary Church.

To pay her way through college, she played with Jack Stallcup, Bill Ewing, Jerry Ford and she continued playing with them for thirty years. She also gave private lessons and played for church while going to college.

She received her BA at SEMO and an MA in violin and piano performance. She performed at Carnegie Hall in a joint concert with the violinist, Michael Barta.

She was hired by Mimi Allen to transcribe harp music as Mimi played her arrangements. Mimi could then teach her students her original arrangements.

Bev’s favorite thing is her dog, Gracie, who is her best buddy. She loves her students and finds time to be their confident and friend.