Njioma Grevious
Described as “superb” by the Chicago Classical Review, violinist Njioma Chinyere Grevious is a winner of the prestigious 2024 Avery Fisher Career Grant. She has been praised for her expressive tones and elegant playing, recently earning accolades for a “dazzling performance” with the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, DC.
A passionate and versatile solo, chamber and orchestral musician, Njioma is a graduate of The Juilliard School and a winner of its John Erskine Prize for scholastic and artistic achievement. In 2023, Njioma won the Grand Prize of the Concert Artist Guild (CAG) and the Young Classical Artist Trust (YCAT) CAG Elmaleh Competition, as well as the Robert F. Smith First Prize and the Audience Choice awards in the Senior Division of the Sphinx Competition. In 2022, she was the winner of concerto competitions at the University of Delaware and the Newark Symphony Orchestra. Njioma was also a winner of the Music Academy of the West Keston-Max Fellowship to study and perform in the London Symphony Orchestra in November 2022. She won First Prizes for Performance and Interpretation in the 2018 Prix Ravel in Fontainebleau, France.
During the 2024/25 season Njioma debuts as a soloist at Carnegie Hall with the Sphinx Virtuosi. She will also appear with the Florence Symphony, in a return to the Chicago Philharmonic as the inaugural Artist in Residence and in recitals across the United States that include the Strathmore Mansion, Cal Performances, the Mesa Arts Center, Kaufman Music Center, Pepperdine and the Seattle Chamber Music Society. In the spring, she will undertake a YCAT UK tour including a debut concert at Wigmore Hall in London. Njioma has previously appeared with the Boston Pops, Minnesota Orchestra, Western Michigan Symphony and the Salisbury Symphony, among others.
A founding member of the Abeo Quartet, Njioma recently completed graduate 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. Abeo is the Third Prize winner of the 2023 Bad Tölz International String Quartet Competition. In 2022, Abeo won First Prize and the Audience Favorite Prize at the Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition and was invited to participate in the 14th Banff International String Quartet Competition. The quartet was also a finalist in the 2022 Young Concert Artists competition and has been a winner of Silver Medals in the Chesapeake International and Fischoff chamber music competitions. Abeo has appeared on WQXR Midday Masterpieces and WETA Classical Radio as well as in performances in the Schneider Concert Series, Alice Tully Hall, The Kennedy Center, Emerald City Music, in Montreal, and Oslo, Norway, and in residence at the Glenstone Museum, where they premiered “Moonshot” by Alistair Coleman. At Juilliard, the quartet studied under the tutelage of the Juilliard String Quartet and has also been coached by members of the Alban Berg, Quatuor Ebene, Takács, Artemis, Brentano, Miró and Emerson quartets.
Njioma is a member of New York City’s Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. She has been invited to perform in numerous series and festivals including the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, La Jolla ChamberFest, Jupiter Chamber Players, Rockport Chamber Music Festival, North Shore Chamber Music Festival, Chiarina Chamber Players, CMSCV, ChamberFest Cleveland, 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, Njioma 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. Her principal teachers have also included Ronald Copes, James Buswell, Irina Muresanu, Mariana Green-Hill and Farhoud Moshfegh. Njioma, who began studying the violin at the age of 4, has since performed in numerous volunteer concerts with her siblings and many others. As a Juilliard Gluck Fellow she performed regularly for the medically vulnerable, retirees and children. Njioma has taught composition and collaboration to NYC elementary and middle school students from underrepresented communities through the Opportunity Music Project.
