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Colin McGregor

American violinist and proud Michigan native Colin McGregor began his studies of music at age 2. He won the Ann Arbor School for the Performing Arts’ concerto competition at age 8, performing the Bach Double Concerto with orchestra, and he was the youngest violinist in the 2008 Detroit Civic Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, later placing as a finalist in that year’s respective concerto competition. In his youth, Colin performed in masterclasses for esteemed musicians including Sally Thomas, David Kim, John Kendall, Richard Amoroso, and Kimberly Fisher. Colin was accepted into The Juilliard School’s Pre-College Program in 2009 at age 11, studying violin performance with Catherine Cho and Ann Setzer for 7 years until his high school graduation. He attended the Aspen Music Festival and School in the summers of 2011 and 2012, working under the tutelage of Naoko Tanaka and Espen Lilleslåtten. In the second of those summers, Colin was featured in an episode of the NPR radio program Performance Today with Fred Child. McGregor was also a founding member of the World Youth Alliance Chamber Orchestra, a New York City-based organization dedicated to making social change through music. He attended the Bowdoin International Music Festival from 2013-2015, studying with Sergiu Schwartz, Kurt Muroki, and Ayano Ninomiya. Colin’s musical background also yielded an interest in songwriting. He has regularly worked with vocalists in collaborative projects for several years, and he maintains a website and SoundCloud account with a partial record of his best written work. When not playing music, Colin is a sophomore neuroscience major, working at the Center for Music and Medicine under principal investigator Alex Pantelyat at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institute. Colin is also an avid license plate collector, and he curates the online museum showcase of license plates issued in Jackson County, Colorado.

You can learn more about Colin on his website at colinmcgregor.net

Artist biography from 2018.

Concerts

Sunday, April 29, 2018