Praised for her expressive tones, elegant playing and a “dazzling performance” with the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, DC, violinist Njioma Chinyere Grevious is a passionate and versatile solo, chamber and orchestral musician.  A  winner of the prestigious 2024 Avery Fisher Career Grant, she has been described as “superb” by the Chicago Classical Review.  In 2023, she won both the Robert F. Smith First Prize and the Audience Choice awards in the Senior Division of the Sphinx Competition as well as the Grand Prize of the Concert Artist Guild (CAG) and the Young Classical Artist Trust (YCAT) Elmaleh Competition.

A graduate of the Juilliard School in 2021, Njioma was awarded the John Erskine Prize for scholastic and artistic achievement.  She was named a Classic FM Rising Star in 2024.

As a soloist, Njioma has debuted at the world-renown Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with the Brussels Philharmonic and at Carnegie Hall in New York City with the Sphinx Virtuosi. She also debuted at the iconic Wigmore Hall, undertaking a UK tour as a YCAT artist. Njioma has performed in solo recitals across the United States including at the Seattle Chamber Music Society, Cal Performances, Strathmore Mansion, Mesa Arts Center and Pepperdine’s Wengler Center for the Arts. Named as the Chicago Philharmonic’s inaugural Artist in Residence, Njioma will be a featured soloist over the next three years in addition to building upon her outreach and mentoring of local children. In past years, Njioma has performed with the Boston Pops, Minnesota Orchestra, Chicago Philharmonic, Florence Symphony Orchestra and Western Michigan Symphony, among others. 

Appearances in 2026 include recitals in New York City and San Francisco as well concerto performances with the Springfield and Bucks County Symphony Orchestras, the Chicago Philharmonic and with the Indianapolis Symphony featuring Sphinx.  Njioma will be on tour in June with the Chineke! Orchestra in London, Vienna, Lugano and Amsterdam.

Njioma can also be heard with Tai Murray collaborating on the high-energy, cross-genre “Double Down” Invention No. 1 for Two Violins by contemporary composer Curtis Stewart. The piece is featured on the Sphinx Virtuosi album “American Mirror” released by Deutsche Grammophon in August 2025.