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An artist of Queens County.

Biography

Pianist Frances Gray has established a very successful musical career as soloist, chamber musician, music professor and adjudicator. She concertizes extensively and is heard on regional and national CBC and Radio-Canada broadcasts. She has collaborated with many soloists and chamber groups and her concerts have taken her throughout , to the , and to Canadian Embassies in London, and Brussels. She has also performed at the Moscow Conservatory, and at the University of Melbourne in .

Frances Gray's two CD recordings, Poems for Piano (featuring solo piano music of Ernest Bloch, Frank Bridge, Edward MacDowell, Cyril Scott, and Alexander Scriabin) and The Evocative Piano (solo piano music of William Baines, Frederick Delius, Cyril Scott, E.J. Moeran, John Ireland, Leo Smith, John Alden Carpenter and Charles Griffes) were both nominated for East Coast Music Awards in the Classical category. She is also represented in two excerpts on the 1999 Compilation Disc of the Indian River Festival, where she has performed yearly.

Frances Gray received her undergraduate musical education from McGill University where her teachers included Dorothy Morton (piano), Helmut Blume (collaborative piano), Alexander Brott (chamber music), and Kenneth Gilbert (harpsichord). Her graduate studies were at the Royal Academy of Music in London, -- Guy Jonson (piano), and John Streets (collaborative piano) and at Indiana University -- Menahem Pressler (piano), Joseph Gingold and Janos Starker (chamber music). Dr. Gray teaches Piano Performance, Piano Literature & Pedagogy, Collaborative Piano, and Music Theory at the University of Prince Edward Island. Many accomplished pianists have graduated from her studio. They now occupy positions such as pianists at the New York Metropolitan Opera, Wilfrid Laurier University, and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.

Education & Training

Doctor of Music -- Indiana University (Bloomington, Ind. USA)
Master of Music -- Indiana University (Bloomington, Ind. USA)
Bachelor of Music -- McGill University (Montreal, Que. Canada)
Associate Diploma -- McGill University (Montreal, Que. Canada)
1 year Post-Graduate Study -- Royal Academy of Music (London)
Present Position -- Professor of Music -- UPEI (Charlottetown)