Bernard Di Gregorio
Viola
BERNARD DI GREGORIO is the violist of the Montclaire String Quartet, which is in residence at West Virginia State University. Among his many responsibilities he is the Principal Viola of the West Virginia Symphony and Artist-in-Residence in the West Virginia Symphony/ Kanawha County Schools String Program, and a member of the Ohio Valley Symphony. During the summer months he is the Principal Viola with the New Hampshire Music Festival where he also participates in chamber music programs. He has been Principal Viola with the Roanoke (VA) Symphony for over 20 seasons before resigning, and has been a member of the Alabama Symphony. Mr. Di Gregorio also performs occasionally in the viola section of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. He has studied at the New England Conservatory of Music and holds a diploma in Viola Performance from the Longy School of Music where his principal instructor was George Neikrug. Although very busy as an orchestral/chamber musician and teacher he also is the founding member of DUO VIANNO, and viola and piano duet which has given performances throughout the Ohio Valley and West Virginia areas. As a composer he has had his Symphony for String Orchestra performed by the Seneca Chamber Orchestra and Scenes From the Old Country- Four Pictures for Cello and Piano composed for and performed by his wife and cellist, Andrea, at the New Hampshire Music Festival. At the behest of the Montclaire String Quartet has also arranged his Love Letters, Seven Miniatures for Piano for string quartet and was performed by Montclaire in 2014.