Class Accompanists
Jeremy Reinhold
Jeremy Reinhold has accompanied ballet classes since 2001. He has previously worked for K-Ballet (Japan), San Francisco Ballet, U.C. Berkeley, Evergreen City Ballet (Seattle), and others. He has played classes at Harvard University, Cornish College of the Arts, and The Joffrey Ballet School Summer Intensive. He composes music regularly and loves collaborating with artists in other media, including film, theatre, and, of course, dance. His original music has been performed across the country, and his commercial music has been used by Saab and L’Occitane, among others. Jeremy holds a Bachelor’s degree from Berklee College of Music and a Master of Arts degree from San Francisco State University, both in music composition. He also studied in Greece at the Phillipos Nakas Conservatory. Jeremy is passionate about music education and has taught for more than a decade, including four years at the Seattle Symphony in the education department. Currently, he teaches piano, composition, and film scoring from his home studio in Portland.
J-P Douglas
J-P Douglas works as a multi-instrumentalist performer, educator and music director. He has previously lived and performed in the Twin Cities of Minnesota and Santa Barbara, CA. He is an active musician for dance and currently plays for dance companies and schools around Portland. In the past, he has directed music for many youth theater productions and performed at many fancy hotels. He has yet to be commissioned as a composer, though he regularly writes pieces for the people he cares about. You can regularly find him jamming with street buskers and enticing the public with music of every genre, origin and era at the public pianos around Portland. Living with the understanding that “the more instruments you can play, the more gigs you can get,” he is constantly learning and practicing new instruments and reminds you that it is never too late to learn a new skill or instrument.
Irina Goldberg
Bio coming soon
Corin Parker
Born in Walla Walla, Wa. to a very musical family, Corin was immersed in music with the Walla Walla symphony where her mom played the violin and her grandfather helped repair the instruments. She began playing the piano at the age of 6 under Beulah Long at the Whitman College School of Music. She continued to take piano lessons from Debra Richter at Walla Walla College. Her first performance with a symphony was under the baton of Yaacov Bergman playing Mozart’s variations to “Ah vous dirai-je Maman” when she was 12 years old. She received her BA with an emphasis in Piano Performance from Whitman College and her MAT in Education from University or Portland. Her solo performances have included Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto #2, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, all of J.S. Bach Two Piano/Four Hand works, Brahms four hand Hungarian Dances, Lutoslowski’s Two Piano Theme and Variation of Paganini, Beethoven’s first Piano Concerto, and Poulenc’s Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra.
After college she began teaching students music in the classroom, and was a music educator in public schools for 23 years. In 2017 she received the OMEA General Music Teacher of the year. After moving to the Portland area, she gave education a break, and began playing for ballet companies. She is currently a collaborative pianist at Oregon Ballet Theatre, Portland Ballet Theatre, Body Vox, NW Dance Project, and is currently a collaborative pianist at Pacific University.
Karen Lam
A native of Hong Kong, Karen Lam received both Master’s of Music degrees in Piano Performance and Piano Pedagogy from the University of Oregon. She also holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her teachers include Dean Kramer, Claire Wachter, Betty Oberacker and Peter Gach. Both a soloist and a collaborative pianist, Ms. Lam has appeared in the International Workshops in Graz, Austria, Oregon Mozart Players Chamber Music Series, Palomar College Concert Series, and with the DeRosa Chamber Players. She has performed in Masterclasses given by Stephen Hough, Fernando Laires, Martin Katz and Rosalyn Tureck. Ms. Lam has been an active member of the Oregon Music Teachers Association where her students have won numerous honors and awards in the Pacific Northwest. Currently, she maintains a private teaching studio and serves as ballet pianist at Oregon Ballet Theater, The Portland Ballet, Pacific University and Northwest Dance Project.