Sally Johnston Reid


Sally Johnston Reid is an American music educator and composer.

Biography

Sally Reid was born in East Liverpool, Ohio, and graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Texas in Austin. She served on the music faculty at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas beginning in 1969 and became Chair of the Department of Music there in 1979. She became Department Chair at Lipscomb University in 2008. She won a composition prize from Mu Phi Epsilon, a number of American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers awards, and first prize at the Fifth International Festival of Women Composers at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1998. Reid served as editor of the International League of Women Composers Journal from 1991–95 and as president of the International Alliance for Women in music from 1999-2000. She appeared in the film The Devil and Daniel Johnston in 2005.

Works

Selected works include: