Elizabeth Gray

About Elizabeth

Elizabeth Gray is currently Acting Associate Principal/Second Horn of the Kansas City Symphony, where she has been a member since 2009. She also previously served as Acting Fourth Horn of the Houston Symphony during their ‘08-‘09 season.

Gray graduated magna cum laude from Rice University with a Bachelor of Music in Horn Performance. She also started a Performance Studies Certificate at The Colburn School in Los Angeles before winning her job in Kansas City. Her former teachers include David Krehbiel, William VerMeulen, Corbin Wagner, and Louis Stout, Sr.

An avid chamber musician, Gray performs regularly with the symphony woodwind and brass quintets as well as on the Kansas City Symphony’s chamber music series and the EPIC Chamber Music series in Colorado Springs. She has soloed with the Kansas City Symphony, Plymouth Symphony, University of Kansas Orchestra and Ann Arbor Concert Band and has been a featured artist at the Mid-South Horn Workshop.

A sought-after educator in the Kansas City area, Gray frequently gives masterclasses in Kansas City and across the state. She has also been on faculty of the Interlochen Horn Institute. Her former students have received admission to major music conservatories and universities.

Gray resides in Overland Park, Kansas with her husband and three young children.

Interlochen is one of the most special and formative places of my youth. I attended in different capacities for four summers, including one as Principal Horn of the World Youth Symphony. I am thrilled to be teaching students through this program.

I love to meet my students where they are, come alongside them, and support them as I help them achieve their goals