Gualala Arts Concert Series is privileged to host Mack McCray at 4 p.m. on Sunday, June 13 at Gualala Arts Center.

Mr. McCray won First Prize in the San Francisco Symphonyâs Young Artist Competition and the Charleston Symphony Competition, Silver Medal at the International "Enescu" Competition in Bucharest (plus a special award for best performance of a contemporary work), Silver Medal at the International Liszt Competition in Boston, and Juilliardâs coveted Steuerman Award. His spectacularly successful tour of Europe included dŽbuts in London, Vienna, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Brussels, and Zurich.

Since then McCray has performed around the world, notably at the Paris "Festivale d'autumne," at Sevilleâs "Great Interpreters Series," with the Monte Carlo Orchestra at the UNESCO "Festival of International Artists" in Monaco, at Hong Kongâs City Hall Concert Series, the Bucharest Philharmonicâs Bach-Beethoven-Brahms Festival, Harvard University's Fromm Foundation Concerts, San Francisco's Chamber Music West, and U.C. Berkeley's prestigious "Artists and Lectures" Series. McCray has been soloist with numerous national and international orchestras, including the San Francisco Symphony, and with such conductors as Michael Tilson Thomas, Edo de Waart, Leon Fleischer and Arthur Fiedler.

His program will include pieces by Soler, Schumann, Davidsbundlertanze, Bartok, Chopin, and Liszt.