Kathryn Reed teaches harpsichord and ear training, as well as serving as director of the Luther College Paideia Program. She served as the director of the Luther Nottingham Program for the 2009-10, and 2017-18 academic years. She moved to Decorah in 1995 from Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she studied and taught musicology and early keyboard instruments. She has also taught Music Appreciation, Music of J. S. Bach, and multiple study abroad courses in the U.K. and Europe. She maintains a small studio of private piano students ranging in age from 8 to adult, and co-directs Burning Bright, an annual community benefit concert.