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Mack McCray
Chair, Piano Department
Mack McCray received his B.M. and M.S. from The Juilliard School, where he studied under Irwin Freundlich. He won the silver medal in the International George Enescu Competition, first prize in the Charleston Symphony and San Francisco Young Artists competitions, Juilliard’s Edward Steuermann Memorial Prize and a grant from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation—all in one season (1969–1970). He has been invited guest artist at the Festival d’Automne in Paris, Seville’s Great Interpreters Cycle, the UNESCO Festival of International Artists at Monte Carlo, the Bucharest Philharmonic’s Bach/Beethoven/Brahms Festival and the Hong Kong City Hall Series. He has performed under such conductors as Michael Tilson Thomas, Edo de Waart, Josef Krips, Leon Fleisher and Arthur Fiedler. In 1991, he performed the United States premiere of John Adams’ Eros Piano. Recently he has performed with the Japan Philharmonic in Suntory Hall, Tokyo, at the Carmel Bach Festival and on the Trinity Church Concert Series in Manhattan. McCray is artistic director of the Zephyr International Chamber Music Festival, held annually in Courmayeur, Italy, and has been on the San Francisco Conservatory of Music faculty since 1971.
Mack McCray can be contacted at 415.503.6234 or mackmccray@aol.com.
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