Robert Ray

Director of the Saint Louis Symphony IN UNISON® Chorus

Dr. Robert Ray is a composer and conductor, and is currently professor of music and coordinator of keyboard studies at the University of Missouri St. Louis. He is also director of the University Community Chorus. He was educated in the St. Louis public school system and studied at Northwestern University, were he earned a B.M. degree. As a pianist, he has performed as a soloist with the Seoul Philharmonic and the Champaign-Urbana Symphony. Additionally, he has served as accompanist to Robert McFerrin and the late William Warfield. In demand as an adjudicator, clinician, and guest conductor, he leads the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and their Saint Louis Symphony IN UNISON® Chorus annually in A Gospel Christmas concert.  In addition to his Gospel Mass, he is composer of He Never Failed Me Yet. Most recently he was commissioned by the Saint Louis Symphony to write a new work, Psalms, and has just released his Gospel Magnificat.  All works are published by Hal Leonard.