A native of Tennessee, tenor Gerald Thomas Gray is known to audiences throughout New England both on the operatic and concert stages in repertoire ranging from Monteverdi to Mahler. Recent concert highlights include regular appearances in Emmanuel Music's ongoing Sunday morning Bach Cantata series as well as Emmanuel Music's evening concert series in Handel's Saul, Handel's Brockes Passion, Schubert's mass in E flat, and Bach's Saint John Passion (1725 version) also recorded on KOCH international. Gerald has performed with the Boston Cecelia in Handel's Samson, Handel's Deborah and Purcell's Funeral Sentences. Also included are appearances at Boston College in Orff's Carmina Burana, Reiche's Te Deum and a world premiere of Fergusson a song cycle on poems by Robert Furgusson and Robert Burns set by Scottish composer William Sweeney. At Harvard University Mr. Gray performed Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde and appeared in Bach's Magnificat under the direction of Seiji Ozawa. On the operatic stage Gerald has recently appeared in such roles as "Anatol" in Samuel Barber's opera Vanessa and "Quint" in Benjamin Britten's opera The Turn of the Screw with Prism Opera.
Mr. Gray has performed over forty of Bach's Cantatas as a soloist and over one hundred and twenty cantatas as a chorister. Mr. Gray has sung most of the sacred music of Heinrich Schütz as well as much of the standard oratorio canon. Mr. Gray recently made his third recording of Bach's sacred music with Emmanuel Music on the KOCH International label and sang the role of Tom in scenes from the John Harbison's new opera The Great Gatsby under the direction of the composer. Later this month Mr. Gray will return to the Piccolo Spoletto in Charleston South Carolina as a soloist in a program of American music and a Gala celebration of American musical theater.
Gerald Gray received degrees from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York and is currently completing Doctoral studies at the University of Iowa. A winner of the National Federation of Music Clubs student competition, Gerald Gray has toured Southern France under the auspices of the Robert Shaw Festival Singers and has participated in numerous TELARC recordings under the direction of the late Mr. Shaw. He has been a fellow at both the Bach Aria Festival and the Carmel Bach Festival where he returned as a soloist. Mr. Gray is an Assistant Professor of voice at SUNY College at Fredonia, New York.
A native of Tennessee, tenor