Njioma Chinyere Grevious

Described as “superb” by the Chicago Classical Review, violinist Njioma Chinyere Grevious is a passionate and versatile solo, chamber, and orchestral musician and performer. A graduate of the Juilliard School and a winner of its John Erskine Prize for scholastic and artistic achievement, Grevious won the 2023 Grand Prize in the Concert Artists Guild (CAG) and Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) CAG Elmaleh Competition; the Robert F. Smith First Prize and the Audience Choice awards in the Senior Division of the Sphinx Competition; and First Prizes for Performance and Interpretation in the 2018 Prix Ravel in Fontainebleau. In 2022, she was the winner of concerto competitions at the University of Delaware and the Newark Symphony Orchestra. Today’s recital marks her Cal Performances debut.

As a soloist, Njioma has appeared with the Chicago Philharmonic, the Western Michigan Symphony, and the Newark Symphony Orchestra. A founding member of the Abeo Quartet, Grevious recently completed studies with Ryan Meehan and the Calidore String Quartet at the University of Delaware, where she was also a fellow in the inaugural Graduate String Quartet in Residence Program. In 2022, the Abeo won First Prize and the Audience Favorite Prize at the Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition and was invited to participate in the Banff International String Quartet Competition. At Juilliard, the quartet studied under the tutelage of the Juilliard String Quartet; it has also been coached by members of the Alban Berg, Ebène, Takács, Artemis, Brentano, Miró, and Emerson quartets.

Grevious performs frequently on chamber music series and has appeared in festivals including Music@Menlo, Perlman Chamber Music Workshop, Juilliard String Quartet Seminar, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, Montreal International String Quartet Academy, Meadowmount, Fontainebleau Schools, and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. For many years, she was a scholarship recipient through Boston’s Project STEP string training program for Black and Latino youth, and at the time also earned summer study scholarship assistance through Winsor Music.

Grevious began studying the violin at the age of four; her principal teachers include Ronald Copes, James Buswell, Mariana Green-Hill, and Farhoud Moshfegh. As a Juilliard Gluck Fellow she performed regularly for the medically vulnerable, retirees, and children. Grevious loves teaching composition and collaboration to New York City elementary and middle school students from underrepresented communities through the Opportunity Music Project.