Chicago Philharmonic's Inaugural Artist in Residence Program

Chicago Philharmonic’s inaugural Artist in Residence program launches on March 13, 2025, featuring violinist Njioma Chinyere Grevious, winner of the 2024 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 2023 Sphinx Competition. Over a three-year residency, Grevious will engage in:

 

Symphonic Concerts
Masterclasses
Coaching
Mentorship
Community Outreach and Engagement

 

This residency highlights her exceptional talent while strengthening the orchestra’s connection to the community.

Njioma Grevious

Described as “superb” by the Chicago Classical Review, violinist Njioma Chinyere Grevious is an emerging, passionate and versatile solo, chamber and orchestral musician and performer. She is a graduate of The Juilliard School and a winner of its John Erskine Prize for scholastic and artistic achievement, and in 2024 was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant. 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.

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