Mark Grey, composer

Born: January 1, 1967 in Evanston, IL

Education: BA and MA degrees in Composition and Electro-Acoustic Music from California State University, San Jose

Commissions from: Phoenix Symphony (where he was composer-in-residence for the 2007|8 season), Kronos Quartet, violinist Leila Josefowicz, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Colorado Music Festival, The Paul Dresher Ensemble

Notable compositions: Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio for baritone, chorus, and orchestra, premiered by the Phoenix Symphony in February, 2008; San Andreas Suite for solo violin, which was performed worldwide by Leila Josefowicz as part of her 2005|6 recital series program

Recordings: Enemy Slayer (Naxos Records), Joan Jeanrenaud's debut CD Metamorphosis (New Albion Records), Kronos Quartet, Visual Music, Bertoia I and II (NPR/Nonesuch Records/Carnegie Hall radio series Creators at Carnegie), Josefowicz, San Andreas Suite (Warner Classics)

As a sound designer: premiered major opera and concert works for John Adams, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Kronos Quartet; artistic collaborator, sound designer and soundscape engineer for John Adams’s critically acclaimed On the Transmigration of Souls, which received the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Music as well as three Grammy Awards® in 2005; designed sound for the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Lyric Opera and the Metropolitan Opera