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Ray received his PhD in Musicology from Claremont Graduate University, where he was awarded a valuable CGU Dissertation Grant and the Fernandez Prize in Music.
He has presented papers at several conferences: at the Second International Historic Brass Symposium in New York, at the 2009 joint conference of the Galpin Society and the Historic Brass Society in London and Edinburgh, at the inaugural BraSS Trumpet Forum at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, at the 2007 Historic Brass Society conference in Paris, and at the 2006 joint conference of the Historic Brass Society and the Internationale Gesellschaft zur Erforschung und Förderung der Blasmusik (IGEB) in Northfield, Minnesota.
Ray’s article, “Brass Chamber Music in Circuit Chautauqua,
1904 to c.1930,” was published in the journal, Alta Musica, and his article, “The Paris Factor: French Influence on Brass Chamber Music, 1840-1930,” was published online by
the Cité de la Musique in Paris.
Ray playing John Distin’s slide trumpet (by John Köhler, London, ca. 1835) in the Fiske Museum, Claremont, California, 2007.
“American Women’s Brass Quartets before 1900: Clever, versatile, and fair to look upon,” presented at the Second International Historic Brass Symposium in New York, New York, 2012.
“Cornet and Trumpet Quartets in the United States, 1872-1939,” presented at the inaugural BRaSS Trumpet Forum at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland, 2009
“Fanfare’s Fanfares: Heralding a New Era,” presented at the 2009 Historic Brass Society/Galpin Society Joint Conference in London, England and Edinburgh, Scotland
“Brass Chamber Music in Circuit Chautauqua, 1904 to c.1930,” presented at the joint conference of the Historic Brass Society and the Internationale Gesellschaft zur Erforschung und Förderung der Blasmusik, Northfield, MN, 2006
Brass Chamber Music in Lyceum and Chautauqua. Los Angeles: Premiere Press, 2016
“Brass Chamber Music in Circuit Chautauqua, 1904 to c.1930,” Alta Musica, vol. 26 (2008)
Ray plays the earliest known cornet with Perinet valves (by Adolphe Sax & Cie, Paris, 1844), in the collection of Bruno Kampmann, Paris
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