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Faculty & Guest Artist Trio: Jenny Grégoire, Violin, Moisés Molina, Cello & Po-Chuan Chiang, Piano
Livestream Piano Violin Cello Symphony Orchestra
Location: Moody Music Building 125 Concert Hall, 810 2nd Avenue, Tuscaloosa, AL, 35401, United States - 9-10-2025 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm (America/New_York) (1 hour 30 minutes)

Violinist Jenny Grégoire is Associate Professor of Violin and String Area Coordinator at the University of Alabama. Born in Québec, Canada, Ms. Grégoire began to play violin when she was five. At age six, she was admitted in the pre-college division of the Québec Music Conservatoire where she studied with Jean Angers and Liliane Garnier-Le Sage 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 performed 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 has been heard in solo and chamber music recitals throughout the United States and Canada. An avid chamber musician, she has notably collaborated with violinists Stefan Jackiw and Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, as well as pianist William Wolfram. Additionally, Ms. Grégoire 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 recently performed Mozart Violin Concerto No. 4 with the Eastern Music Festival Chamber Orchestra. In 2019, Jenny Grégoire traveled to Brazil with pianist Dr. Robert Holm, to perform recitals and teach masterclasses at the Conservatório de Tatuí and Unicamp University in Campinas. In January 2020, she was featured as a soloist with the Meridian Symphony Orchestra. More recently, Ms. Grégoire performed Vaughan Williams, The Lark Ascending, with the North Mississippi Symphony Orchestra and conductor Steven Byess. Ms. Grégoire plans to release this spring her first solo recording, “Music of My Homeland”, featuring music for violin and piano by French Canadian composers.   Cellist Moisés Molina, a native of Honduras, is an active soloist, orchestra and chamber musician, teacher, and clinician. He has performed in the United States, Central and South America, Europe, and Asia, and he has recorded for Centaur Records, Parma Records, Profil, and New World labels. Molina is a guest artist and teacher at the Toradze International Music Festival (Tbilisi, Georgia), the Orfeo Music Festival, and Northern Lights Music Festival. He is in the faculty of the Tennessee Valley Music Festival and the Singing River Cello Workshop. Molina is a member of the ensemble for the Chicago Conducting Masterclass and Workshop and a regular guest artist/teacher at the Biennial Violoncello Festival in Lima, Peru. Molina was a guest artist at the St. Augustine Music Festival in Florida for several seasons. He has participated in the International Chamber Music Festival in Lima and Cuzco Music Festival in Cusco, Peru. He has also He has also given master classes, performances and workshops at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Santo Domingo, (Dominican Republic), the Tennessee Cello Workshop in Nashville, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma and the Escuela de Música Victoriano López in Honduras. Molina is Principal Cellist for the Mobile Symphony Orchestra, Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra, and the Columbus (GA) Symphony Orchestra. He also plays with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra. He has served as Principal Cellist for Abilene (TX) Philharmonic Orchestra, Abilene Opera Orchestra, Quincy (IL) Symphony, and as Assistant Principal for Tallahassee Symphony, Peoria Symphony, and Heartland Festival Orchestras. Dr. Molina is Assistant Professor of a Cello at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Prior to his position at UA, Dr. Molina was Professor of Cello and Assistant Director of the School of Music at Western Illinois University, and he taught at Hardin-Simmons and Abilene Christian Universities. He has given lectures and clinics for the College Music Society and the Texas and Illinois Music Educators Associations. He directed the Quincy (IL) Summer Music Institute Orchestra and the IMEA District IV Junior High School Orchestra for several years. He taught at the Summer Fine Arts Camp at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and he conducted the Abilene Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. Moisés was successful in several concerto, solo and chamber music competitions, and he was awarded an orchestral fellowship to the Aspen Music Festival.   Po-Chuan Chiang, a native of Taiwan, performs nationally and internationally. Dr. Chiang has worked with many performers, both instrumental and vocal, in multiple styles and genres. During the summer, Dr. Chiang worked as a pianist for the opera program Scuola Italia in Sant’Angelo in Vado, Italy, Interlochen Center for the Arts, and Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. In 2018, he performed in the winners concert of the American Protégé Competition in the Chamber Music category at Carnegie Hall. Dr. Chiang currently works as a staff accompanist at Western Illinois University. During the first two years of study at University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Dr. Chiang was granted a prestigious accompanying assistantship with the vocal, brass and string divisions for student lesson and recitals. He then was offered a highly-coveted opera accompanying assistantship supporting singers in main stage operatic productions at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. He also served as the pianist for both the University of Illinois Wind Orchestra and Wind Symphony. Dr. Chiang has extensive experience in the realm of musical theater. He has worked with Champaign-Urbana Theatre Company, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville Champaign Central High School and Parkland College Theater as rehearsal pianist and keyboard/synthesizer in performances. Po-Chuan holds a Bachelor of Music Degree in Piano performance from the Tainan National University of the Arts in Taiwan. In 2009, he received a Masters of Music Degree in piano performance at the Boston Conservatory of Music where he was hired as a staff accompanist at the same year after he graduated. In 2017, he earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance under Dr. Ian Hobson at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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