Biography
Patricia Gray holds a Ph.D. in musicology from Washington University in St. Louis. She was a member of the music faculty at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenneessee from 1976-2001 where she taught music history, music appreciation and piano. While there she became active in the creation of online resources for use in music history and music theory classrooms. She has presented her work at national technology conferences such as SyllabusWeb, Ed-Media, Educause, Mid-South Instructional Technology Conference, and the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. From 2001-2006 she led the Orpheus Alliance, music division of the Association Colleges of the South. In this position she created the annual ACS New Music Festival and Technology Workshop along with a large body of online teaching materials. In 2002 she founded Luna Nova Music, an organization devoted to supporting the work of young classical musicians and to producing performances of classical works from the last 150 years. Since its founding the ensemble performed over 500 concerts in colleges, museums, and other venues across the country. In 2006 she founded of the Belvedere Chamber Music Festival (www.belvederefestival.org) held each summer in Memphis. Since 2012 she has also served as President of the Beethoven Club of Memphis, an arts organization that has been a champion of classical music in Memphis since 1888. It produces several concert series and student competitions each year. The club typically is reponsible for approximately 150 concerts, lectures, meetings, and other events each year. She currently has a private piano studio and teaches piano students at Grace-St. Luke's Episcopal School in Memphis.