Reid Merzbacher (b. 1998) is a composer, jazz pianist, and classical violinist from Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Music Composition at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and received bachelor’s degrees in Music Composition and Computer Science from Brown University. He currently studies with Jeremy Podgursky, and previously studied with Eric Nathan, Don Freund, Wang Lu, and Shawn Jaeger. In 2021, he studied film scoring with Larry Groupé. Reid has written for a variety of ensembles and has had pieces performed by the Momenta Quartet, Imani Winds, Ensemble Dal Niente, Chartreuse, and Tracy Silverman. He was a finalist in the 2020 Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra Call for Scores and the 2021 ASCAP Morton Gould Awards. In past summers he has attended the Bowdoin International Music Festival, the Mostly Modern Festival, and the European American Musical Alliance.