Gregory Gentry is the Chorusmaster for The Phoenix Symphony.

Gregory R. Gentry is the 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 sixth season (2011-2012) as Chorus Master with the Phoenix Symphony. In February 2009 Gentry made his Phoenix Symphony conducting debut with Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms. On September 11, 2009, he coordinated the collaboration of the Arizona State University and Western Illinois University choirs to perform On the Transmigration of Souls by John Adams with 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.

At Gammage Auditorium on October 8, 2010, Dr. Gentry conducted Tito's Say by Arizona composer James DeMars, at which time he was honored by the Mexican Consulate General. Carnegie Hall welcomed Gentry back in June 2008 to conduct Schubert’s Mass in G, and again in April 2010 to conduct the Coronation Mass by Mozart. In July 2008 he took the Phoenix Symphony Chorus to the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder to reprise their performance of Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio for Colorado audiences.

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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).

Conducting Engagements

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Course Syllabi:

MUP 353,553 - Symphonic Chorale




MUP 527 - Individual Conducting




MUP 727 - Individual Conducting




MUP 339 - Choral Conducting