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Gerald Gray
Voice - Tenor;
Director of Choral Activities
Gerald.Gray@fredonia.edu
Mason Hall 2149
716-673-4647 phone
716-673-3154 fax
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Bio:
Gerald Gray, tenor has performed throughout the United States primarily in music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Highlights include appearances with the Handel and Haydn Society in a staged production of Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers for which the Wall Street Journal hailed the "sensuousness of his vocal line". Under the direction of Jeffrey Thomas he has performed with the American Bach Soloists and with the University of California at Davis Symphony (where a Youtube video of his Carmina Burana has achieved seven million views as of February 2012). Under the direction of Martin Hasselböck he has performed with Music Angelica of Los Angeles and with the Wiener Akademie of Vienna. He has also performed as a soloist under the direction of Seiji Ozawa, Christopher Hogwood, Harry Bickett, Bruno Weill, John Harbison, Paul McCreesh and Grant Llewellyn. Theater performances include roles with Boston Lyric Opera, Boston early Music Festival, Boston Academy of Music and numerous local opera companies.
As a conductor, Dr. Gray has earned degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the University of Iowa. Winner of the National Federation of Music Club's Student Competition, he toured France under the auspices of the Robert Shaw Festival Singers and was a chorister in numerous Telarc recordings under Robert Shaw. He has sung as a professional chorister and soloist with Boston Baroque, Handel and Haydn Society of Boston and Emmanuel music of Boston where a forty-year tradition of weekly performances of Bach's Sacred Cantatas continues. With the late Craig Smith and Emmanuel Music, Gerald performed over forty of Bach's Sacred Cantatas as a soloist, over one hundred as a chorister and has performed much of the music of Heinrich Schütz and appeared evening concerts in Handel's Saul and Brockes Passion, Schubert's Mass in E flat, and Bach's St. John Passion (1725 version) which was recorded on the Koch International label. Dr. Gray counts his involvement in numerous workshops, performances and recordings with the late Robert Shaw as a primary influence in his philosophy and approach to the choral art. Dr. Gray is an Associate Professor of Voice and the Director of Choral Activities at the State University of New York at Fredonia where he resides with his lovely wife Shinobu and his arrogant miniature pinscher Hiro. He enjoys cooking, learning about wine and the art of espresso.
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