Tomeka Reid

Tomeka Reid is an American cellist, composer and improviser, born in 1977, raised near Washington, D.C., and based in Chicago. She works in creative jazz and free improvisation, leads the Tomeka Reid Quartet, co-leads the string trio Hear in Now and plays in the Art Ensemble of Chicago. In 2022 she was named a MacArthur Fellow. Tomeka Reid studied at the University of Maryland and DePaul University and completed a doctorate in jazz studies at the University of Illinois in 2017.