A champion of new music and community-driven programming, Reeves launched the Alabama Composers Project, a multi-season initiative commissioning new orchestral works by composers connected to Alabama’s cultural and historical landscape. In 2025 he appointed acclaimed composer Nkeiru Okoye as the inaugural William Levi Dawson Composer-in-Residence, culminating in the February 2026 world premiere of A Time for Jubilee, a choral-orchestral work commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March.

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Reeves has collaborated with distinguished soloists including Jeffrey Biegel, Geneva Lewis, Laquita Mitchell, Evren Ozel, Natasha Paremski, and Santiago Cañón-Valencia. His programming also bridges symphonic traditions with wider audiences through film-in-concert productions and educational initiatives, including Mason Bates's Philharmonia Fantastique and the orchestra’s participation in Carnegie Hall’s Link Up program.

He has participated in leading international conducting programs, including the Lucerne Festival Masterclass with Bernard Haitink, the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music with Cristian Măcelaru, and masterclasses with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under Marin Alsop. Reeves has been recognized as a finalist in the Grzegorz Fitelberg and Besançon International Conducting Competitions, where he conducted the Filharmonia Śląska and L’Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté.

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He holds conducting degrees from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, where his mentors included Marin Alsop, David Effron, Arthur Fagen, John Ratledge, and Joseph Young.