Jenny Gregoire

Violinist Jenny Grégoire is Associate Professor of Violin and String Area Coordinator at the University of Alabama. Born in Québec, Canada, Ms. Grégoire attended the Québec Music Conservatoire where she studied with Jean Angers and Liliane Garnier-LeSage and earned both undergraduate and graduate degrees in violin performance, with a minor in chamber music. Upon leaving Québec, Ms. Grégoire attended Northwestern University, where she received a master’s degree in Violin Performance and Pedagogy with Dr. Myron Kartman. She was a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago for two seasons and worked with conductors Daniel Barenboim, Neeme Jarvi, Mstislav Rostropovich, Pierre Boulez and Cliff Colnot, among others. Jenny Grégoire left Chicago to play one season with the New World Symphony, under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, in Miami, FL. Ms. Grégoire is currently concertmaster of the Mobile Symphony Orchestra, a position that she has held since 2001. She is extremely sought-after in the southeast, as she is also concertmaster of the Meridian, North Mississippi, and Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestras.

In addition to her orchestral career, Ms. Grégoire remains active as a soloist and recitalist. She has appeared several times as a soloist with the Mobile Symphony and the Meridian Symphony Orchestra. In May 2019, she performed the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Adam Flatt. She was also a featured soloist with the North Mississippi Symphony Orchestra in February 2024, and performed Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending under the direction of Maestro Steven Byess. Ms. Grégoire has presented solo and chamber music recitals throughout the United States, as well as in Brazil, Canada, and Portugal. Additionally, she is on faculty at the Eastern Music Festival, where she is the Assistant Principal Second Violin in the faculty orchestra, under the direction of Maestro Gerard Schwarz. Ms. Grégoire plans to release this fall her first solo recording, “Music of My Homeland”, featuring music for violin and piano by French Canadian composers.