PATRICIA GRAY, Ph.D.

 

 

MAILING ADDRESS                                                                    E-MAIL/INTERNET

1794 Carr Avenue                                                                                  pgray@pgray.net

Memphis, TN 38104                                                                            www.patriciagray.net

 

 

EDUCATION

                  Ph.D.                       1977      Washington University                 musicology

                  M.A., M.M.        1972      University of Memphis                 music history

                  B.A.                         1969      Southwestern at Memphis         music history

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

                  National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education

                                    Chief Program Officer for Music 2005-2006

                  Associated Colleges of the South Technology Center

                                    Director of Orpheus Alliance Music Collaborative 2001-2005

                  Rhodes College Ð Memphis, TN

                                    Instructor in music history and piano 1976-2001

 

ARTS/TECHNOLOGYRELATED POSITIONS

                  Belvedere Chamber Music Festival, Director 2007-the present

                

                  Associated Colleges of the South New Music Festival

                                    General and Artistic Director, 2002-2005

                  NITLE New Music Festival

                                    General and Artistic Director, 2006

                  Theatre Memphis

                                    Board of Directors 2001 Ð the present

                  Opera Memphis

                                    Webmaster 1996-2005

                  Memphis Symphony Orchestra

                                    Webmaster 2001-2005

                  Theatre Memphis

                                    Webmaster 2001-2005

                  Opera Memphis

                                    Special Events Planner 2001-2003

 

COURSES TAUGHT

Music History survey, Music Theory I, Music in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, History of Music in America, Music of the 20th Century, Music in Spain, Music in Russia, Music in Society, History of Opera, Piano

 

AFFILIATIONS

                  American Composers Forum

                  American Musicological Society

                  Association for Technology in Music Instruction

                  Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education

                  Music Teachers National Association

Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society

                  Greater Memphis Music Teachers Association

                 

HONORS, AWARDS, AND CITATIONS

2002      Elected to membership in Omicron Delta Kappa for community service in the arts

2001      Recipient of an ACS-Mellon Technology Fellowship for Summer

2000      Recipient of an Associated Colleges of the South Technology Fellowship for Summer, 2000 for a project entitled Ò A Lively Addition to the Teaching of Early MusicÓ  featuring Flash 4.0 animations demonstration the evolution of musical forms in early music

1999      Rhodes College Alumni Volunteer of the Year

1995      Recipient of an Associated Colleges of the South grant to create a multimedia dictionary of opera terms that would be available both as a standalone product and as a web presentation

1994      Recipient of Hill-Mellon grants to develop a new pedagogy for the teaching of music history courses so that they can incorporate CD-ROM, Internet usage, and the creation of multimedia class projects

 

                                   

PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS (Refereed or invited)

2004      ÒDeveloping Shareable Learning Objects to Enrich the Study and Performance of New Music.Ó Paper presented with James Romig at the Center for Educational Technology, Middlebury College, in Middlebury, VT, as part of In Concert: Music and Technology, March 17, 2004.

 

2003      "Associated Colleges of the South Online Music Collaborative: Phase II" presented with James Romig, Educause Midwest Regional Conference, March 24-26, 2003, Chicago, Illinois

 

2002      "The Orpheus Alliance: A Composers' Forum in the Associated Colleges of the South" Educause Southeast Regional Conference, July 17-19, 2002, Charleston, S.C

 

2001      "Computer Animations as a Tool for Teaching the Evolution of Music Form", conference session accepted for presentation at the 2001 Mid-South Instructional Technology Conference

 

2001      "Bizet's Carmen," preconcert talk presented before two performances of Opera Memphis' production of Carmen, March 3 and 6, 2001

 

2000      "Puccini's Manon Lescaut," preconcert talk presented to invited guests before two performances of Opera Memphis' production of Manon Lescaut, November 18 and 21, 2000

 

2000      "The Student on the Stage: Student Created Music Projects for the Web," poster session accepted for Educause2000 Information Technology Conference, October 10-13, 2000

 

2000      "Flash 4.0 Animations for the Teaching of Music History," Syllabus2000 Educational Technology Conference, Santa Clara, CA July 22-28, 2000

 

2000      ÒMachaut to Puccini: A Kaleidoscopic View,Ó Wake Forest Interactive Multimedia Electronic Journal of Computer-Enhanced Learning (http://imej.wfu.edu/), Vol. 1, No. 3, April, 2000.

 

2000      Contributor to the Medieval Music: A Guide to Online Resources division of ORB (Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies), May, 2000

 

2000      ÒMusic Teaching Resources Shared by the Associated Colleges of the South," Proceedings of the Mid-South Instructional Technology Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, April 9-11, 2000

 

2000      ÒMusic and Society: The Evolution of the Role of the Composer Over Six Centuries, An Enhanced View for the General Student," Technological Directions in Music Learning, 7th International Conference, January 27-29, 2000, sponsored by the Institute for Music Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio

 

2000      ÒGrout Revisited: New Perspectives on a Well-Worn PathÓ, College Music Society, Southern Chapter, February 24-26, 2000 at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette

 

1999      "JavaScript: Convenient Interactivity for the Class Web Page," Proceedings of the 1999 Mid-South Instructional Technology Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, March, 1999

 

1999      "Orpheus in the Cyberworld: A Baroque Opera Research Paper Transformed, " Proceedings of the Ed-Media99 Conference, June, 1999, Seattle

 

1998      "The Class Web Page as an Evolving Resource," Proceedings of the 1998 Mid-South Instructional Technology Conference. Middle Tennessee State University, March, 1998.

 

1997      "The Surprising Evolution of a Class Web Page", Proceedings of the WebNet 97 Conference, Toronto, December, 1997, published by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education on CD-ROM

 

1996      "Rhodes College and Opera Memphis Web Project," Proceedings of the 1996 Mid-South Instructional Technology Conference, p. 385, Middle Tennessee State University, March, 1996.

 

1996      "The Rhodes College/Opera Memphis Web Project," SyllabusWeb '96 Conference at Sonoma State University, July, 1996

 

REFERENCES

Suzanne Bonefas (former Director of the ACS Technology Center)

   Director of Special Projects

   2000 North Parkway

   Memphis, TN 38112

   bonefas@rhodes.edu

   901-843-3000

 

Ofer Ben-Amots (Orpheus Alliance Composers Forum)

   Associate Professor of Music

   Colorado College

  14 East Cache La Poudre St.

   Colorado Springs, CO 80903

   obenamots@coloradocollege.edu

   719-389-6035

  

Craig Hultgren (associate director of Luna Nova)

   5110 7th Avenue South

   Birmingham, AL 35212 Ð

   hultgren@mindspring.com

   205-602-3871