Pianist Susan Keith Gray has performed throughout the United States and abroad as a soloist and collaborative artist. Notable artists with whom she has performed include cellists, Wendy Warner and Anthony Elliott; flutists, Leone Buyse and Torkil Bye; clarinetists, Richard Hawkins and Theodore Oien; and singers, Earl Coleman, Bruce Rameker, Charsie Randolph Sawyer, Patricia Prunty and Nicole Philibosian. With violin partner, Laura Kobayashi, she has performed in South America as a USIA Artistic Ambassador. In 1998, the Duo recorded music by 19th and 20th 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, twice performed the complete cycle of Beethoven piano trios. Other credits include performances and recordings for public radio and compact disc 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 has performed as soloist with the Spartanburg and Savannah Symphonies and the Virginia Highlands Chamber Orchestra.

In 1995 Dr. Gray joined the music faculty of the University of South Dakota where she teaches solo piano, piano pedagogy and class piano, and coordinates student accompanists. She is in demand as a pianist, clinician and adjudicator throughout the midwest region. Recent student accomplishments include winners in the South Dakota Music Teachers National Association competitions and in the concerto competitions of the Omaha Area Youth Orchestras, the Cherokee (IA) Symphony, the South Dakota Symphony and the Sioux City (IA)Youth Symphony. She holds degrees from Converse College, the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and 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.

Personal interests include flower gardening and landscaping and pets, calico tabby Alexandra (Ali) and Whidbey the golden retriever, named after Whidbey Island in the Puget Sound, which is named for Captain Joseph Whidbey of the British navy. He is called Wibbers, for short. The dominant, sweet and loyal lab/shepherd mix, Spenser ("for Hire") died August, 2000