Bettina Gray, composer and instructor in voice, piano, and composition is currently Composer-in-Residence with Slavyanka Russian Chorus of San Francisco. She has composed and arranged for vocal, choral, instrumental, and electronic media as well as for television and theater and has judged for international composition competitions, most recently the Kastalsky International Choral Competition sponsored by Moscow Conservatory. 

Ms. Gray’s formal education includes early childhood studies in piano, clarinet, guitar and violin, with an applied degree in voice, post-graduate studies in piano with Roy Bogas, composition and orchestration with master composer, David Sheinfeld, and coaching in choral writing with Eriks Ešenvald and Steven Sametz.  Her musical compositions cover a wide range of styles with an eclectic and adventurous musical taste.

“Bettina Gray is a very, very bright person, and musically exceptionally talented. She turned out music that showed she was her own person and capable of genuine originality.”  -- David Sheinfeld