Julie Green Gregorian, Assistant Principal Bassoon

photo by Christian Colberg

Assistant Principal Bassoonist of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Julie Green Gregorian is a native of Cortland, New York where she was introduced to the bassoon at the age of thirteen.  Her first bassoon teacher was Ithaca College professor Edward Gobrecht Jr., a former member of the Baltimore Symphony.  Ms. Gregorian came to Baltimore from Temple University where she earned a Master’s in Music degree under the tutelage of Bernard Garfield, the Principal Bassoon of the Philadelphia Orchestra. 

She adores chamber music and has been featured in the “Second Presbyterian Concert Series”, Central Presbyterian, “Chamber Music on the Hill” in Westminster, and “Sundays at 3” in Columbia.  She especially enjoys performing with her daughters, Mariam, a violinist and violin teacher, and Anahid, an oboist and student at Oberlin Conservatory.  Her son, Heig, is sometimes in the audience when he is not busy as a manager for Apple Computers. 

Also a teacher, Ms. Gregorian is on the faculty of Catholic University and the Baltimore School for the Arts as well as maintaining a private studio.  She met her husband, double bassist Arnold Gregorian, in the Baltimore Symphony and together they have founded the Glyndon Chamber Players.  The GCP have given concerts at historic Emory Grove in Glyndon, Frederick, and Germantown, Maryland.