Scott C. Gregg
Music Director & Principal Conductor
Winston Family Endowed Chair
Philharmonic Orchestra, Chamber Music
Scott Gregg is currently in his 14th year with Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra. During his tenure, the JSYO has grown from a 60 member group to the artistically robust arts education program it is today. Prior to taking his current position with the JSYO, Mr. Gregg was music director for education of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, music director for the Youth at the Beaches Arts Guild productions, associate conductor of the Goucher Symphony Orchestra, assistant conductor of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, and staff conductor of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, as well as music director of the Bach Society Orchestra in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mr. Gregg has conducted the Alabama All-State Symphony Orchestra, Brevard Symphony Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Richmond Philharmonic, the Orchestra National du Capitole de Toulouse, France, and the Kielce Philharmonic Orchestra in Poland, among others. He is a founding board member of the First Coast Community Music School and member of Leadership Jacksonville’s class of 2007.
A recipient of the Seiji Ozawa and Andrew Schenk Fellowships, he spent two summers at the Tanglewood Institute, studying with Maestros Seiji Ozawa, Simon Rattle, and Robert Spano, and closed the festival’s season sharing the podium with Maestro Rattle. Gregg has also been a conducting fellow at the Aspen Music Festival, and a fellow at the Conductor’s Institute in South Carolina. Mr. Gregg was a Semi-Finalist in the International Conductors’ Competition in Besançon, France and the Stokowski Conducting Competition in New York. He was one of four Americans chosen to participate in the 1997 Tokyo International Conducting Competition.
Mr. Gregg was himself a member of a youth orchestra as a student, serving as concertmaster of the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra, and made his solo debut with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra at the age of 17. As an undergraduate at Harvard College, he studied music theory and composition. He studied conducting at Baltimore’s Peabody Conservatory of Music, where he earned a master’s degree and was awarded the Christopher Percy Prize in Conducting. Concurrently, Maestro Gregg was appointed to the conducting staff of the Peabody Conservatory Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestras, as well as associate conductor of the Johns Hopkins Symphony Orchestra.
He is married to Camille Clement Gregg and the two are the proud parents of their overgrown golden retriever, Max.
Marguerite Richardson
Associate Conductor,Repertory Orchestra
Marguerite Richardson serves as conductor of the Repertory Orchestra. A member of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra since 1990, she began her violin studies at the age of four. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, a Master of Music degree from the University of South Carolina, and is completing the Doctor of Music degree at the Florida State University. Active as a performer on both violin and viola, Ms. Richardson has performed symphonic and chamber music throughout the United States, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and Central America and performs locally with the Florida Arts Trio. Between 1995 and 2003, Ms. Richardson started and developed the String Program at the University of North Florida. Currently, Ms. Richardson has the position of Assistant Professor of Strings at Jacksonville University, where she maintains the violin and viola studios, conducts the Jacksonville University Orchestra, and, with pianist Scott Watkins and clarinetist Artie Clifton, performs in the JU Faculty Trio.
Judith Steinmeyer
Associate Conductor, Premiere Strings
Judith Steinmeyerstarted her career in 1981 as a violinist in the United States Air Force Band in Washington, D.C. Since leaving the Air Force in 1985, she has performed with such artists as Frank Sinatra, Luciano Pavarotti, Stevie Wonder, Henry Mancini and on several occasions served as concertmaster for performers such as Ray Charles, Tony Bennett, Smokey Robinson, and Ricky Skaggs. Judy has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Vatican, the Bolshoi Theater, the Kennedy Center, and in nearly a dozen Pacific and European countries in addition to being a per-service violinist with the Washington Opera, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Opera, the Washington Chamber Symphony, and the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. She has appeared as soloist with the USAF Symphony, the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, and has performed with hundreds of entertainers on television, to include productions honoring Presidents Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and G.W. Bush. Judy has been a coach for the Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra program since 2002, and she has her own private teaching studio; she is the strings instructor for Brentwood Elementary School of the Arts, and serves as a faculty / board member of the Prelude Chamber Music Camp. Ms. Steinmeyer enjoys membership in the Suzuki Association of the Americas, the American String Teachers Association, the American Federation of Musicians, and is a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (the Grammy Awards). Judy lives in Jacksonville, Florida with her husband, trombonist David Steinmeyer where she is involved in various community volunteer activities and is violinist and director of Flying Bow Entertainment.
Rocco DiGeorgio
Associate Conductor,Foundation Strings & Junior Strings
Rocco (Rocky) DiGeorgio has over twenty-five years of experience in orchestral music instruction, both privately and in ensemble. He has served as a guest clinician for many nationally recognized Suzuki violin workshops throughout the United States. Mr. DiGeorgio is founder and director of the Jacksonville Suzuki Strings, an ensemble of 60 young musicians from the Greater Jacksonville area. He also serves as Sunday Music Director for San Juan del Rio Church in St John’s County and conducts several student orchestra at area private schools.
Rocky received his Bachelor of Music Education from Jacksonville University. He resides in Mandarin with his wife Judy and children Antoni and Juliana.
Marj Dutilly
Associate Conductor,Jump Start Strings
Marj Dutilly graduated from Immaculata University in 1971 with a Degree in Music. After a tour of duty in Vietnam, she utilized Music as a Recreation Therapist at the National Naval Medical Center (Bethesda Naval Hospital). She has performed with the Ventura (Ca.) Symphony Orchestra, the North Attleboro (Ma.) Civic Symphony and the Warwick (RI) Symphony Orchestra. Marj is founder and director of SELAH STRINGS of Nassau County and Director of Music at Faith Christian Academy, Fernandina Beach, Florida. She has taught at Amelia Arts Academy, and is a strings instructor at First Coast Community Music School. Marj has also assisted with both Foundation and Jump Start Strings as a tuning coach and audition judge. She and her husband, Ron, have six children, one of whom, Peter, has been a member of the JSYO Philharmonic Orchestra since their move to Florida in 2004.