Susan Keith Gray shares her love of music through a multi-faceted career as teacher and performer in the fields of solo and collaborative piano. An award-winning member of the faculty at the University of South Dakota, she received the Belbas-Larson Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2005 and the 2014- 2016 Esther and Wayne Knutson Distinguished Faculty Award for the College of Fine Arts. Her career in collaboration has included the privilege to work with a wide array of esteemed partners such as singers Scott Piper, Carla Connors, Earl Coleman, Patricia Prunty and Louis Otey; violinists Scott St. John, Anna Vayman and Mihaela Oprea; cellists Keith Robinson and Anthony Elliott; flutists Leone Buyse and Torkil Bye; clarinetists Richard Hawkins and Theodore Oien; trumpeter, Joe Burgstaller; and bassists Barry Green and Maximilian Dimoff. She has served as collaborative artist/faculty at Cedar Valley Chamber Music Festival, Hot Springs Music Festival, Music Academy of the West and Camp Opera and on the staff of the American Horn Competition and the GM/Seventeen Magazine National Concerto Competition where she performed with cellists Wendy Warner and Zuill Bailey. As a member of the University of South Dakota Rawlins Piano Trio, Gray has recorded four discs of American piano trios (Albany Records, Azica) and has twice performed the complete cycle of Beethoven piano trios. The Trio has commissioned and recorded seven new works and continues to focus on unknown treasures of the repertoire. Opera and art song credits include Saginaw Opera (MI), the University of Michigan Opera Workshop, Sioux Falls Friends of Opera, tours of African-American Art Song with soprano Charsie Randolph-Sawyer and performances and recordings for public radio and compact disc of African-American art song with Randolph-Sawyer, Louise Toppin, Ray Wade and others (Videmus/Albany and Calvin). Studies include solo piano with George Lucktenberg and Ian Hobson; collaborative arts with Martin Katz and Eckart Sellheim; fortepiano with Penelope Crawford; harpsichord with Edward Parmentier; InjuryPreventive Piano Technique with Barbara Lister-Sink; and additional studies with Theodore Lettvin, Louis Nagel and Jean Barr. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from Converse College, the Master of Music in Piano Performance from the University of Illinois, a Graduate Certificate in Injury-Preventive Piano Technique from Salem College and the Doctor of Musical Arts in Collaborative Piano from the University of Michigan.