| Grey was The Phoenix Symphony’s Composer In Residence for their 2007/08 season. He composed a 70-minute oratorio, Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio, for baritone, chorus of 130 singers, and full orchestra, which premiered in February 2008. The story of the oratorio was based on a Navajo creation mythology story. A 10-minute full orchestra work was also premiered during the residency period, titledThe Summons, in September 2007. The residency was funded by Meet The Composer and the League of American Orchestra's program Music Alive! The oratorio was recorded for Naxos Records and will be available Fall 2008. Performances of Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio will also be produced at the Colorado Music Festival in July 2008, and Salt Lake City in May 2009 with the Salt Lake Choral Artists.
The two movement composition Bertoia I and II was included as part of Kronos' evening length program, Visual Music, which has been in several locations including Theatre de la Ville (Paris), Barbican (London), Het Muziktheater (Amsterdam), Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall (New York City), Sydney Opera House Concert Hall (Sydney, AUS), Royce Hall (Los Angeles), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Melbourne and Perth International Festival (AUS).
lDuring her 2005/2006 season, violin prodigy Leila Josefowicz toured Grey's San Andreas Suite for solo unaccompanied violin as part of her recital series program. Performances have been worldwide, including Barbican Centre in London, Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, Carnegie Hall in November 2005 and Ravinia Festival in the summer of 2006. She also recorded the recital program for Warner Classics, which was released in April 2005. In the summer of 2006, Ms. Josefowicz premiered Grey's violin concerto, Elevation, at the Colorado Music Festival with conductor Michael Christie, and then at the Cabrillo Music Festival with conductor Marin Alsop.
Grey has also written several works for soloists Joan Jeanrenaud (former Kronos Quartet cellist), violinist Piotr Szewczyk, and The Paul Dresher Ensemble. He was commissioned to write a new work for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Minimalist Jukebox Festival, March 2006. The work was premiered by The California EarUnit. In July 2005, Michael Christie premiered a new work for orchestra titled Pursuit. The work was performed as part of the Colorado Music Festival.
Grey's music can be heard on Naxos Records (Enemy Slayer), Joan Jeanrenaud's debut CD Metamorphosis on New Albion Records, NPR/Nonesuch Records/Carnegie Hall radio series Creators at Carnegie (Kronos Quartet, Visual Music, Bertoia I and II, and Warner Classics - Josefowicz, San Andreas Suite).
Grey was listed in the The Los Angeles Times – Faces to Watch 2006, Classical Music Section, by Mark Swed. After two decades as a sound designer, he has premiered major opera and concert works for John Adams, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley and Kronos Quartet among numerous others. He was the artistic collaborator, sound designer and soundscape engineer for John Adams’s critically acclaimed On the Transmigration of Souls, which received the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Music as well as three Grammy awards in 2005. Grey was the first sound designer in history to design for The New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall in 2002, The Lyric Opera in Chicago in 2007 and is the first to design for The Metropolitan Opera in New York City, for Adams' Doctor Atomic in October 2008. His sound design creations have been seen and heard throughout most major concert halls, theatres and opera houses worldwide. During his attendance at the California State University at San Jose, both B.A. and M.A. degrees were awarded in Composition and Electro-Acoustic Music under the direction of former International Computer Music Association President and electro-acoustic music pioneer Allen Strange, along with composer Pablo Furman. Two unique musical lifestyles began to develop in composition and technical areas. While working as the first editorial intern at Keyboard Magazine, publishing technical materials and a monthly column from 1990 through 1996, he began to receive several awards for solo, chamber, orchestral and electronic composition.
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