2014 June
Ray is featured performer, composer, and conductor at the 20th annual music festival held in the historic hill town of Staffolo, Italy.
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2013 June
Ray is listed in “Trumpet Greats: A Biographical Dictionary,” compiled and edited by David Hickman, Edward Tarr, and Michel Laplace. The reference book contains biographies of important players, teachers, designers, etc. from the Baroque to the present.
Link to Hickman Music Editions
2012 August
Ray’s original work, SERENITY (for solo horn or horn duo), was premiered by Dr. Steven Gross and Julie Callahan Gross on the opening concert of the 5th National Horn Workshop in Kimberley, South Africa.
2012 July
Ray presented his paper, “American Women’s Brass Quartets before 1900: ‘Clever, versatile, and fair to look upon’,” at the Second International Historic Brass Symposium in New York City.
Link to related blog
2011 February
Ray is Solo Trumpet for Cinebrass at Sony Pictures (historic MGM Studios) sound stage.
2010 May
Ray earns his PhD in Musicology from Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA. Link to Facebook photo album.