Teaches solo piano, piano pedagogy and class piano, and coordinates student accompanists.

Pianist Susan Keith Gray has performed with orchestras including the Spartanburg and Savannah Symphonies and as a professional collaborative pianist with artists throughout the United States and abroad. With violin partner, Laura Kobayashi, she has performed in South America as a USIA Artistic Ambassador. In 1998, the Duo recorded music by 19^th and 20^th century women composers for compact disc. As a member of the University of South Dakota Rawlins Piano Trio, she has recorded two discs of American piano trios (Albany Records, 1999) and during the 1996-97 concert season, the Trio played the complete cycle of Beethoven piano trios. Other credits include recordings for public radio and two compact discs of African-American art song. Dr. Gray has served on the Instrumental Accompanying Faculty at the Music Academy of the West and on the staff of national competitions including the American Horn Competition and the Seventeen Magazine/General Motors National Concerto Competition. Awards include the Accompanist Prize at the Matinee Musicale Richardson Voice Competition and prizes in the Music Teachers National Association Wurlitzer Collegiate Artist Competition. She holds degrees in Piano Performance from Converse College and the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and the Doctor of Musical Arts in Chamber Music and Accompanying from The University of Michigan. She has studied solo piano with George Lucktenberg, Ian Hobson, Theodore Lettvin, and Louis Nagel; collaborative arts with Martin Katz and Eckart Sellheim; fortepiano with Penelope Crawford; and harpsichord with Edward Parmentier.