Christine Grossman, Principal
B.M., M.M. The Juilliard School

Member of the Orchestra Since 2008

Born to a musical family and raised in New York City, Christine Grossman began playing the violin at the age of 5, piano at 10, and viola at 16. As a child, she made occasional television appearances with her violin, most notably an MTV music video, and several performances on PBS' "Sesame Street." She received both her Bachelors and Masters degrees in viola performance from the Juilliard School where she studied with Heidi Castleman, Misha Amory and Hsin-Yun Huang.

Grossman has participated in numerous summer music festivals including The Quartet Program at Bucknell, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival (Germany), Taos Chamber Music, Lake Tahoe Music Festival, Deer Valley Music Festival, Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, and was awarded a fellowship to attend Tanglewood Music Center for two summers in a row. Her orchestral experience is vast and includes Principal and Assistant Principal chairs with the Delaware Symphony, Reading Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Michael Tilson-Thomas' New World Symphony, the Juilliard School Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, National Youth Orchestra and the New York String Seminar.

Grossman was previously a member of the California Quartet, based in Southern California. They were finalists in the Concert Artists Guild Competition, the Chesapeake Competition, and semi-finalists in the Premio Gui Quartet Competition in Florence, Italy. Before joining the Kansas City Symphony as its Principal violist at the beginning of the 2008-2009 season, Grossman resided in Philadelphia, where she studied privately with Roberto Diaz and held the Associate Principal viola position with the Delaware Symphony.