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Gregory Gentry is the Chorusmaster for The Phoenix Symphony.

Gregory R. Gentry is the newly appointed Director of Choral Performance at the ASU School of Music, where he conducts the Symphonic Chorale, teaches graduate and undergraduate conducting and literature, and administers the doctoral, masters and undergraduate choral conducting programs.

Dr. Gentry is in his fourth season (2009-2010) as Chorusmaster for the Phoenix Symphony. The 2008 world premiere of Mark Grey's Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio—with English and Navajo text by Laura Tohe—featured Gentry's innovative preparation of the Phoenix Symphony Chorus (available on the Naxos label). Also notable is his choral preparation for the 2008 Arizona premiere of Golijov’s Ainadamar with the Phoenix Symphony in collaboration with Dawn Upshaw and Kelley O’Connor.

The 2008-2009 season marks Dr. Gentry's debut conducting the Phoenix Symphony, with Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms. He appeared at Carnegie Hall for the second time in June 2008 to conduct Schubert’s Mass in G, while in July 2008 he took the Phoenix Symphony Chorus to the Colorado Music Festival to reprise their performance of Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio for Colorado audiences. He will return to Carnegie Hall to conduct Mozart’s Coronation Mass in 2010, and Avery Fisher Hall in 2011.

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 his presentation "Comparing four choral works with non-traditional compositional elements" at the 2006 regional conference of the College Music Society in Los Angeles. Dr. Gentry and Dr. Matthew Harden of the University of Nebraska presented their ....(READ MORE)

Publications (partial list)


  • Gentry, Gregory R., and Matthew Harden. “Context Specific Somatic Vocabulary: Conducting Gestures with Musical Outcomes.” The Choral Journal. The Choral Journal (April, 2008).
  • Gentry, Gregory R., ed. “De Khistos (Vasilii Titov, c. 1650- c. 1715).” SSSAAATTTBBB unaccompanied; first edition Seventeenth-Century Russian Baroque Liturgical Choral Concerto for 24 voices. Musica Russica, San Diego, CA (2007).
  • Gentry, Gregory R., and JoAnn Yoeman Tongret. “Beginning, Middle, and End: Audition Guidelines for Instructors and Students.” Antiphon: Official Newsletter of the Arizona Chapter of American Choral Directors Association (Spring, 2006).
  • Gentry, Gregory R., ed. “Cor meum et caro mea” from Quam dilecta tabernacula (c. 1716) by Jean-Philippe Rameau. SSATBB with orchestra received world premiere performance by ACDA’s National High School Honor Choir, American Choral Directors Association National Convention, Los Angeles, CA (February 5, 2005).
  • Gentry, Gregory R., ed. “Cor meum et caro mea” from Quam dilecta tabernacula (c. 1716) by Jean-Philippe Rameau. SSATBB with orchestra; first edition Eighteenth-Century French Grand Motet (keyboard reduction available). National Music Publishers, Tustin, CA (2004).
  • Gentry, Gregory R., conductor. Preparation and conducting of studio recording choir for choral compositions by John Leavitt. For distribution by Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, MO (2004).

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Conducting Engagements

2010 
 February    Colorado All-State Men's Chorus (Conductor), Denver, Colorado
 March    Mozart Requiem (Chorus Master), Phoenix Symphony Chorus with the Phoenix Symphony
              Symphonic Star Wars (Chorus Master), Phoenix Symphony Chorus with the Phoenix Symphony
 April    Mozart Coronation Mass (Conductor), Carnegie Hall Concert Series, New York, NY
 May    Great Opera Choruses (Chorus Master), Phoenix Symphony Chorus with the Phoenix Symphony
 June    National Conservatory of Music (Visiting Conductor), Mexico City
2012 
 Avery Fisher Hall - DCI Concert Series (Guest Conductor), New York, NY
 Carmina Burana (Visiting Chorus Master), University of Denver, Denver, Colorado

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Track List

01) Odysseus and the Sirens
02) Magnificat
03) Elijah Rock.
04) Brahms, Op. 92 nos. 1 ~ 4
05) Past Life Melodies
06) There Will Be Rest

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Course Syllabi:


  • MUP 353,553 - Symphonic Chorale

  • MUP 527 - Individual Conducting

  • MUP 727 - Individual Conducting

  • MUP 339 - Choral Conducting