Garrett Clay

Garrett Adam Clay is an incoming graduate student pursuing a Master’s Degree in Orchestral Conducting. From 2022 to 2024, Garrett was the orchestra and chorus director at Peachtree Middle School in DeKalb County, Georgia. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education from Kennesaw State University in 2022. While at KSU, Garrett enjoyed performing as a cellist in the KSU Symphony as well as the Cooke Scholarship String Quartet. In 2020, he was awarded first prize in the university’s Symposium of Student Scholars, for which he conducted research on Shostakovich’s string quartets. Garrett is currently an active section player of the Georgia Philharmonic, which he joined in 2021, as well as a freelance cellist in the metro-Atlanta area.