Gregorio Midero is well known to audiences throughout the Piedmont Triad. A member of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra since 2001 and newly appointed to the Winston-Salem Symphony for the 2011-2012 Season, he also enjoys an active career as a chamber musician, recording artist, and instructor.

Mr. Midero is a dedicated teacher and has instructed private students and ensembles in numerous area music academies and schools. He served as conductor of the Greensboro Symphony Youth Orchestra’s Allegro Strings from 2003 to 2008. He opened the doors on his private teaching studio at Deep River Friends Meeting in 2007.

A native of Venezuela, Mr. Midero, at eight years of age, began his musical studies in the State Foundation for the National System of Youth and Children’s Orchestras of Venezuela (internationally-known as El Sistema). Two years later, he made his solo debut playing the Violin Concerto L’estro Armonico no.6 Op. 3 by Antonio Vivaldi in the Teresa Carreno Center for the Performing Arts. Present as a special guest for this performance was José Antonio Abreu, creator of El Sistema.

Mr. Midero studied at the Youth Orchestra Conservatory of Sucre, the Simon Bolivar Conservatory, and the Latin American Academy of Violin. He studied with Ruben Cova, Camilo Acosta, Luis Miguel Gonzalez, and Raimundas Butvila, and he has taken violin master classes with Olivier Charlier, Albert Markov, Raimundas Butvila, José Francisco del Castillo, and Tibor Varga. He expresses an immeasurable debt of gratitude to all of his teachers. Mr. Midero was privileged at a young age to begin an intense and active orchestral experience with excellent musicians and teachers thanks to El Sistema.

At the age of seventeen, he won a position in the Orquesta Sinfónica Municipal de Caracas in the first violin section, where he remained as a member until coming to the United States in 2001.

Gregorio Midero resides in Jamestown with his wife, Judy, and daughter, Addison.