Ray Adams received his Doctor of Musical Arts, Master of Fine Arts, and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Iowa. He received his Bachelor of Sacred Music degree from Wittenberg University. He studied at the famed Berliner Kirchenmusik Schule. His concert organ studies were under Karl Hochreither. He was Director of Music/Organist at Community Church of Vero Beach for 20 years. During that time he founded the Vero Beach Choral Society, the Indian River Symphonic Association, and the Academy for the Performing Arts. For the past 18 years, he has been the founding Artistic Director/Assistant Director of the Indian River Charter High School, Schumann School for the Visual and Performing Arts. On March 31 of this year he will premiere his conducting skills at Carnegie Hall with a performance of John Rutter’s Gloria.