Linda Gregorian

Mrs. Gregorian has been a member of the viola section in the Lansing Symphony since 1985. In 2002 she was awarded the Commitment to Excellence teaching award by the Okemos Education Foundation. In 2014 she was nominated and on the MASTA ballot for Studio Teacher of the Year Award. 

Mrs. Gregorian’s teaching experience includes 13 years as a private teacher in Owensboro, Kentucky, seven years for the Michigan State University Suzuki Program, 32 years for the Okemos, Michigan Suzuki Program, and 17 years as 5th grade Strings Instructor and 6th grade Orchestra teacher for the Okemos Public Schools, retiring from that position in 2011. She served as a Clinician at the Blue Lake Fine Suzuki Family Camp for ten summers, and has been a guest clinician at a number of Suzuki Workshops in the state of Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio. She spent 32 summers teaching Violin, Viola, and Chamber Music at the New England Music Camp in Maine.

Linda Gregorian graduated with Honors from Michigan State University in 1971 with a Bachelors degree in Violin Performance. She earned a Master of Music in Violin Performance degree from the University of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana in 1982. Her principal teachers included Lyman Bodman, Walter Verdehr, and Delmar Pettys. She has attended prestigious music festivals such as Interlochen National Music Camp and the Meadowmount School for Strings one summer where she studied with Dorothy Delay. She successfully completed Suzuki Violin Teacher Training Units 1A-6 after graduating from college.