Ara Gregorian Equally accomplished as soloist and chamber musician, violinist Ara Gregorian made his debut with the Boston Pops Orchestra in Symphony Hall in 1997 and his New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in 1996. Mr. Gregorian has made chamber music appearances at New York’s Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, and Avery Fisher Hall in a concert commemorating Mozart’s life as well as appeared as a recitalist at Detroit’s Henry Ford Centennial Library and Harvard University’s Payne Hall. Additional orchestral appearances have included performances with the Shanghai, Lansing (MI), Pueblo (CO), Michigan State, East Carolina University, and Las Cruces (NM) Symphony Orchestras.
Gregorian is the founder and Artistic Director of the Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival of Eastern North Carolina and has performed at the Santa Fe, El Paso, Cactus Pear, and Strings in the Mountains music festivals. He has collaborated with such artists as Andre-Michel Schub, the Brentano Quartet, and members of the Cleveland Quartet, and has recorded for New York’s WQXR radio station, National Public Radio, and the Kleos label. Mr. Gregorian is a member of the chamber music ensemble, Concertante, which has toured throughout the major cities of the United States and China and maintains residencies at Merkin Hall in New York, NY and at the Whitaker Center for the Performing Arts in Harrisburg, PA.
As former violinist of The Arcadian Trio, he has performed at Carnegie Hall at the “Time for Peace” awards ceremony, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and at the Skaneateles and Garth Newel music festivals. The trio was selected in a partnership with the Wintergreen Music Festival (VA) to participate in Chamber Music America’s “A Musical Celebration of the Millennium”.
In 1992, Mr. Gregorian entered The Juilliard School where he received both his bachelor and master of music degrees. He was concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra and studied with Joseph Fuchs and Harvey Shapiro. Mr. Gregorian also studied with Robert Mann while pursuing his doctoral degree from SUNY Stony Brook. He has been a member of the violin/viola faculty at East Carolina University since 1998.
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