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Gregory GentryArea: MusicCategory: Faculty Title: Assistant Professor and Director of Choral Performance Office: MUSIC-W 136 Phone: 480-727-3605 Fax: Specialty: Choral Email: gregory.gentry@asu.edu WebPage: http://www.gregoryrgentry.com |
| Bio: Gregory R. Gentry is the newly appointed Director of Choral Performance at Arizona State University’s School of Music, where he administers the graduate and undergraduate choral conducting programs. At ASU he conducts the Symphonic Chorale and teaches graduate conducting, literature and score study. He is the former Director of Choral Activities at the University of Alabama. Gregory Gentry is in his fourth season as Chorus Master with the Phoenix Symphony. In February 2009 Gentry made his Phoenix Symphony conducting debut with Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms. In 2008 the Phoenix Symphony and Phoenix Symphony Chorus premiered Mark Grey’s Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio. The March 2009 release (http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.559604) of this world premiere on the Naxos label (http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.559604) features Gentry’s work with the Phoenix Symphony Chorus, with a Navajo/English libretto by Dr. Laura Tohe. Also notable is Gentry?s choral preparation for the 2008 Arizona premiere of Golijov?s Ainadamar in collaboration with Dawn Upshaw and Kelley O’Connor. Gentry’s most recent publication, "Dnes Hhristos" by Vasilii Titov (ca. 1650-1715) SSSAAATTTBBB (Musica Russica, 2009), is the first western edition of the Seventeenth-Century Russian Baroque Liturgical Choral Concerto (premiered by the Oregon Repertory Singers in 2001). His edition of "Cor meum et caro mea" from Quam dilecta tabernacula by Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) SSATBB with orchestra (National Music Publishers, 2004) was premiered by the ACDA National High School Honor Choir at the American Choral Directors Association National Convention in Los Angeles in February 2005. In collaboration with Dr. Matthew Harden of the University of Nebraska-Omaha, Dr. Gentry’s article "Context Specific Somatic Vocabulary: Conducting Gestures with Musical Outcomes” appeared in the April 2008 Choral Journal, following their presentation of research on conducting with increased metaphoric communication through context specific somatic vocabulary at the 2007 Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities. At the 2006 Western Division American Choral Directors Association convention in Salt Lake City, Dr. Gentry presented his research entitled "Baroque Performance Practice Exposé: An Overview of Salient Performance Concepts of Baroque Choral Music" followed by "Comparing four choral works with non-traditional compositional elements" at the 2006 regional conference of the College Music Society in Los Angeles. Other articles by Dr. Gentry have been published in Quaderni della SIEM, Semestrale di recerca e didatticca musicale, Antiphon: Official Newsletter of the Arizona Chapter of American Choral Directors Association, Reprise: Official Newsletter of Alabama Chapter of American Choral Directors Association, The Carolina Caroler, The Journal of Band Research, and The Colorado Choral Director. As a choral clinician, Dr. Gentry has worked with choirs all over the United States. His ensembles have toured worldwide, in such varied venues as The Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Cleveland, the Music Educators Southern Regional Conference in Savannah, St. Andrew’s Church in Plymouth, UK, and Nassau, Bahamas. Dr. Gentry made his Carnegie Hall conducting debut in 1994. He returned to Carnegie Hall in 2008 to conduct Schubert’s Mass in G, and will conduct Mozart?s Coronation Mass in 2010. His technique has been primarily guided by his studies with Eph Ehly, as well as his work with Brian Priestman, Dale Warland, and Gary Hill. Both a singer and percussionist, Dr. Gentry has performed under the baton of Aaron Copland, Jorge Mester, Dave Brubeck, Karel Husa, and Robert Shaw. He has prepared choirs for Michael Christie, Eph Ehly, Shinik Hahm, George Lynn John Rutter, and Gunther Schuller. Among several area of interest, Dr. Gentry has an exceptional affinity for Russian choral music, particularly of the Russian Synodal School and its performance practice. He is a proponent of the solo voice and emphasizes the use of vocal science as the foundation of his approach to artistic ensemble singing. Dr. Gentry is an active member of the American Choral Directors Association, Chorus America, National Association for Music Education, National Collegiate Choral Organization, College Music Society, and a founding member of Southwest Liederkranz. He is the faculty advisor to ASU?s student chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. Education: (D.M.A., M.M. University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music; B.M.E. University of Denver) RECORDING EDITIONS Gentry, Gregory R., ed. “Cor meum et caro mea” from Quam dilecta tabernacula (c.
1716) by Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764). SSATBB with orchestra; first edition
Eighteenth-Century French Grand Motet (keyboard reduction available). National Music
ARTICLES
Gentry, Gregory R. and Anna Wheeler Gentry. “Kirke Mechem: Master Craftsman” in The Conductor?s Podium, Illinois Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association (Winter 2008) PERFORMANCE REVIEWS with the Phoenix Symphony: Symphony of Psalms by Igor Stravinsky (conducted by Gregory Gentry, February 2009)
Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio by Mark Grey (World Premiere, February 2008)
Review of Gentry’s choral edition
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