Antony Gray

Antony Gray was born and educated in Victoria, Australia. He graduated from the Victorian College of Arts where he  studied with Roy Shepherd and Stephen McIntyre, and won several awards, including the Allans Keyboard Award two years running. In 1982 he received a scholarship from the Astra foundation to continue his studies in London with Joyce Rathbone and Geoffrey Parsons.

He has performed widely throughout Australia, Britain and the continent, and has recorded an album of works by Percy Grainger for piano and orchestra with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He has appeared on Australian and British radio and television, both as soloist and with other artists including Mischa Maisky, Sherban Lupu and Martin Robertson. He has performed at London’s South bank, Wigmore Hall, St.Johns, Smith Square and as soloist with the YMSO at the Barbican, as well as at several British and continental festivals.

He is an active champion of new music, and in 1994 gave the first complete performance of the four sonatas by Malcolm Williamson, having premiered the third in Australia in 1993. He has given many other first performances, including several works written for him. Among the distinguished contemporary music groups he worked with are Ixion, The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, London New Music, Tapestry, The Cambridge New Music Players and Double Image. He was a member of the jury for the 1994 Cornelius Cardew composition competition, and is currently the British representative of the Australian Music Centre.

His first solo CD, the music of Eugene Goossens, was released on ABC Classics, and he has recently recorded a further disc of Goossens, the complete piano music of Malcolm Williamson, and taken part in the Chandos Grainger series. Recent recordings include the complete piano music of Poulenc, two discs of Bach transcriptions and the late Brahms pieces.