Clarinetist Gary Gray enjoys a versatile career as a concert artist, studio musician and professor of clarinet and chamber music at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). A Los Angeles Times review of his 1995 concert said: Gray handled the clarinet solos with stunning ease and as mellow and gorgeous a sound as may be possible on his instrument". As Principal Clarinetist of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, with John Adams conducting a 2001 concert and its director, Jeffrey Kahane as soloist, another LA Times critic said: "in Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Gray astonished with liquid clarinet solos!" Gray received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Indiana University School of Music where he studied clarinet with Henry Gulick and Robert McGinnis and chamber music with Janos Starker. Mr. Gray has been a member of the St. Louis Symphony and the Aspen Music Festival Orchestra, and won first prize in the San Francisco Symphony Foundation Competition. He has collaborated with Aaron Copland, Benjamin Britten, Pierre Boulez and Igor Stravincky; as well as the Cleveland, Angeles and New Hollywood String Quartets. As a soloist, his concerto CD with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra was nominated for a 1989 Grammy Award, and his CD of clarinet/piano music recorded in London with Clifford Benson has also been a best seller for Centaur Records. Gray has been a member /performer with Pacific Serendades since its inception and was Faculty/Artist at the Aspen Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, the Sedona Chamber Music Festival and the Aria Music Academy, in past seasons. His website is: www.clarinetbygray.com