The master who makes masters.

One of her students played keyboards for Beyoncé and Stevie Wonder. Another is a Grammy winner with twelve nominations. A third directed Black Panther. Janice Maxie Reid taught all three of them—and most nights, the audience has no idea.

She started playing piano at four. Was performing professionally at thirteen. By the time most musicians are just getting started, Janice had already been building her craft for a decade.

Decades later, she is still the most complete musician in the room.

Trained at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music and the San Francisco Conservatory, Janice performs across gospel, jazz, blues, R&B, classical, and sou —not as a generalist, but as a musician who has spent a lifetime going deep in all of it. Her signature: she plays left-hand keyboard bass, right-hand melody, and sings a four-octave vocal line simultaneously. Carlos Santana has one word for it: anointed.

She has performed at the Hollywood Bowl, Davies Symphony Hall, the Berkeley Greek Theater, and the Monterey Jazz Festival. She has shared stages with Sting, Carlos Santana, Narada Michael Walden, and George Duke. She has played festivals in Detroit, Chicago, and San Jose — and internationally in Adelaide, Australia and São Paulo, Brazil. She has performed for U.S. Congresswomen, former mayors, and heads of state. She played the U.S. National Anthem at the Oakland Coliseum and solo piano at Clint Eastwood's private tournament in Carmel.

And all of that is only half the story.

For over twenty-five years, Janice has taught voice and piano at the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley. Before that, she spent two decades directing music programs at St. Mary's College High School — producing full-scale musicals and developing students who went on to change the industry. Victoria Theodore. Ledisi. Ryan Coogler. They did not arrive as finished artists. They arrived as students. She helped build them.

She also performs weekly at memory care and retirement facilities across the Bay Area—because she believes that music at this level belongs everywhere, not just on ticketed stages.

She has released four solo albums. Been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle. Interviewed on Australian Broadcasting Company radio. And she is still performing, still teaching, still recording — available to bring fifty years of earned mastery to your event, your studio, or your musical journey. Your mastery starts here.