Bio : Artists

Jenny Grégoire : Violin II

Violinist Jenny Grégoire has been the concertmaster of the Mobile Symphony Orchestra since August 2001 and in 2006 was offered the same position with the Meridian and the Gulf Coast symphonies. Born in Québec, Canada, she studied at the Québec Music Conservatoire with Jean Angers and Liliane Garnier-Le Sage, where she earned both undergraduate and graduate degrees in violin performance and a minor in chamber music. Upon leaving Québec, Mrs. Grégoire moved to Chicago to attend Northwestern University, where she obtained a master?s degree in violin performance and pedagogy with Dr. Myron Kartman. She was also a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and worked with conductors Cliff Colnot, Mistlav Rostropovitch, Pierre Boulez, and Daniel Barenboim. In September 2000, Mrs. Grégoire won a fellowship position with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. She currently lives in Tuscaloosa, AL, where she is concertmaster of the Tuscaloosa Symphony.  In addition to having a full private studio, she is an adjunct violin instructor at the University of Alabama and returns to EMF for her eighth year. In September 2010, she was featured as a soloist with the Mobile Symphony.