Gregory Gentry is the Chorusmaster for The Phoenix Symphony.

Dr. Gentry has prepared choirs for Gunther Schuller, John Rutter, Richard Westerfield, Shinik Hahm, and Michael Christie. His choirs have toured nationally and internationally, with guest performances in such varied venues as The Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Cleveland, Music Educators Southern Regional Conference in Savannah, St. Andrew’s Church in Plymouth, UK, and The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs.  Dr. Gentry’s upcoming conducting engagements include the Mesa All-District Choral Festival in 2007, University of Nebraska-Omaha Honor Choir as well as New York’s Carnegie Hall in 2008, European tour of the Phoenix Symphony Chorus in 2009, and Colorado All-State Choir 2010.

In addition to Dr. Gentry’s 2004 choral recording contract with Concordia Publishing House, his choral editions have been published by National Music Publishers and Musica Russica, while his research articles continue to be published in Quaderni della SIEM, Semestrale di recerca e didatticca musicale, The Journal of Band Research, and the state choral journals of North Carolina, Alabama, Colorado, Illinois and Arizona. His edition of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s "Cor meum et caro mea" from Quam dilecta tabernacula was premiered in February 2005 at the American Choral Directors Association National Convention in Los Angeles, while his edition of Vasilii Titov’s Seventeenth-Century Russian Baroque Liturgical Choral Concerto for 24 voices "Dnes Khristos" was premiered by the Oregon Repertory Singers in 2001.

Among his sub-specialties, Dr. Gentry has an exceptional affinity for Russian choral music, particularly of the Russian Synodal School and its performance practice.  His choral research presentations have included "Conducting with Increased Metaphoric Communication Through Context Specific Somatic Vocabulary" at the 2007 Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, "Cori Spezzati: Performance Demonstration of the Venetian Polychoral (double choir) style of the 16th Century – ‘Singet dem Herrn’ from Psalmen David by Heinrich Schütz" at the 2007 Pacific Southern Division Conference of The College Music Society, and "Baroque Performance Practice Exposé: An Overview of Salient Performance Concepts of Baroque Choral Music" at the 2006 Western Division Conference of the American Choral Directors Association in Salt Lake City.

At Arizona State University’s Katherine K. Herberger College of the Arts, Dr. Gentry teaches graduate and undergraduate conducting and literature and is the new faculty advisor for the ASU student chapter of American Choral Directors Association. He is the former Director of Choral Activities at the University of Alabama School of Music.

Dr. Gentry made his Carnegie Hall conducting debut in 1994. His technique has been primarily guided by his studies with Eph Ehly and George Lynn, 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 earned his BME from the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver, and the degrees Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting from the Conservatory of Music, University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Dr. Gentry is an active member of the American Choral Directors Association, Chorus America, the National Association for Music Education, the National Collegiate Choral Organization, and is Vice President of Pacific Southern Division of the College Music Society. He is on the Choral Repertory and Standards Committee for Arizona Choral Directors Association, as well as founder and host of Southwest Liederkranz.

As the current Director of Music Ministries at the First United Methodist Church in Gilbert, Arizona, Dr. Gentry--together with his wife, Anna Gentry--lead varied music endeavors there.