GARY GRAY
 Clarinetist Gary Gray enjoys a versatile career as a concert artist, studio musician and professor of clarinet and chamber music at UCLA. He received his Bachelor and Masters degrees from Indiana University, where he studied clarinet with Robert McGinnis and chamber music with Janos Starker. His clarinet teachers have also included Rosemary Lang, Keith Stein and Mitchell Lurie at the Jordan College of Music, Interlochen and the Music Academy of the West, respectively. A Los Angeles Times critic wrote of a recent LA Chamber Orchestra concert. "Principal Clarinetist Gray handled the solos with stunning ease and as mellow and gorgeous a sound as
may be possible on his instrument." Professor Gray has been a member of the St. Lous Symphony and soloist with the San Francisco Symphony, the Aspen Chamber Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony and the LA Chamber Orchestra, among others.
     
 
  For many summers a Faculty/Artist at the Aspen Music Festival, he has also performed at Chamber Music Northwest, the Sedona Chamber Music Festival and this summer will join the Alexander Quartet for an International Chamber Festival in Florence Italy. He has also concertized with the Cleveland, Angeles and New Hollywood Quartets as well as being a founding member of Pacific Serenades chamber series. Gray's Concerto CD, recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, was nominated for a Grammy Award and included the Copland Clarinet Concerto, which will used as underscoring for Ken Burn's new documentary, "The War" premiering this September on PBS. His CD of clarinet/piano music recorded in London with Clifford Benson has also been a best seller for Centaur Records, and his most recent Centaur recording includes two Romantic master works for clarinet and chamber ensemble......Brahms Quintet Op. 115 and Dohnanyi's Sextet Op. 37. For this project, Gray collaborated with the New Hollywood Quartet, pianist Robert Thies and hornist Richard Todd. The American Record Guide said of this CD: "I can hardly believe Centaur has come up with such an incredible reading...something this group is doing gets right to the heart of this music! If this is your only recording of Op. 115, you do well!"