Teaches in Nashville, TN

From Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Plays and Voice

About

Camron Gray is a native of Winchester, Tennessee who has performed solo recitals, concert repertoire, sacred music, and opera across the United States since 2010. Described in Opera News in 2021 as “lithe-voiced”, tenor Camron was most recently seen in the 2023-2024 season with Opera Idaho as an Emerging Artist where he sang the roles in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) and subsequently as “Jumper” in Zach Redler’s contemporary-American opera, The Falling and the Rising. Beginning in February 2023, Camron collaborated with pianist Leonard Hayes at the Colour of Music Festival in Charleston, SC where he curated a vocal recital featuring works in Catalán, Italian, German, culminating the program with Four Romantic Love Songs by American composer Adolphus Hailstork and with settings of spirituals arranged by Jacqueline Hairston and Moses Hogan. Later in March 2023, Camron sang with the Washington National Opera (WNO) at the John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center as “Police Buddy #1” in Blue, an American opera commissioned in 2016 by Jeanine Tesori and director/librettist Tazewell Thompson and premiered at The Glimmerglass Festival 2019 (GGF). Camron has performed his original role in Blue, including its world premiere, a total of 4 times with WNO (2023), Seattle Opera (2022), and Detroit Opera (2021) all of which have garnered him noteworthy praise in critical reviews.

As a voice teacher Camron has taught students both in public school as well as private lessons from ages K-12 in addition to coaching and teaching adults. He enjoys working with students of all levels to focus on language, music, and the craft of stage performance. Camron also enjoys acting and stagecraft; combining all facets and aspects of art-making into a totally immersive experience. Most recently Camron has taught and coached singers both virtually and in-person and enjoys the hybrid experience of both styles. He has worked with children’s choruses as well as high school and college students preparing roles for musicals or theatrical and recital performances. In 2015, Camron taught K-12 music to students in an afterschool music program provided by the local United Methodist Church which included vocal & instrumental music while incorporating key musical concepts like rhythm, pitch, and melody within ensemble singing and playing.

Camron is a graduate of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor where he attained a Master Degree and Specialist Degree in Vocal Performance: Opera, in 2018 and 2021, respectively. Other accomplishments include being a recipient of the Shelly Manvel “Pocket Angel” Scholarship in 2022, District Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 2018, and a finalist in the S. Livingston Mather Vocal Competition as an Albert Rees Davis Scholar in 2017. He received his Bachelor of Music Education and Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from Tennessee Tech University (TTU) in 2014. While studying at TTU studied abroad for a summer in the Spanish cities of Seville, Valencia and Madrid where he took Spanish language, conversation, and comprehension all apart of several immersive language courses. Camron is a passionate singer, speaker, educator, and life-long student both on and off stage. He has studied and taught a variety of subject areas such as K-12 music, voice, acting, language acquisition, public speaking & presentation, and served as an advisor for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in opera. He is a passionate lover of music, language, education and loves to learn about people finding commonality and connection wherever he is!