Biography

Mark Grey (sound) has collaborated with composers and artists such as John Adams, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Péter Eötvös, Terry Riley, and Kronos Quartet, and his work was featured in the Metropolitan Opera on John Adams’s Doctor Atomic and Kaija Saariaho’s L'Amour de Loin. Mr. Grey was sound designer and artistic collaborator for the premiere of John Adams’s Pulitzer Prize and Grammy award-winning work On the Transmigration of Souls, commissioned by the New York Philharmonic in 2002. Since 2007, he has designed six productions with Lyric Opera of Chicago, most recently The King and I, The Merry Widow, and Carousel. He has designed productions for the Park Avenue Armory in New York City, Saint Matthew Passion with the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle, and Circle Map with the New York Philharmonic in 2016. As a composer, Mr. Grey has received commissions from the Atlanta Symphony, Kronos Quartet, violinist Leila Josefowicz (who recorded his San Andreas Suite on Warner Classics in 2005), the Colorado Music Festival, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, the California EAR Unit, and Joan Jeanrenaud. His opera Frankenstein premieres at La Monnaie in Brussels during the 2018-19 season. 

(June 2017)