Gregory Allison creates with a single violin a sound that travels across great landscapes.  He brings the sensibility of a film composer into a live and intimate setting.  His training in South Indian Classical music brings a melodic fluency and emotional fire to his compositions while his Western Classical training is apparent in the wide sonic palette that he creates.  He is a sound shaper.  His violin goes from intimate weeping to orchestral soundscapes, carrying the listener on a journey all the way.  

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A composer, multi-instrumentalist, and actor who performs in a wide variety of styles and genres, Greg is originally from Madison, WI where he began studying piano at age 5 and violin at 9.  In high school he used his classical violin training as a springboard for learning about improvising, jazz, world music traditions.  He started playing the mandolin and his studies on the instrument landed him a four-year scholarship at the Berklee College of Music in Boston where he completed a degree in Composition while studying in the string department with violinist Mat Glaser, mandolinist John McGann, and cellist/composer Eugene Friesen, and in the composition department with Yakov Gubonov and John Bavicchi.  After college he moved to Vermont and was a founding member of the ME/2 Orchestra, a nationally-recognized full orchestra based in Burlington, VT created for people with mental disabilities and those who support them. He also performed in the traditional middle eastern music ensemble Grup Anwar, and travelled to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with the Vermont theater troupe Spielpalast Cabaret. He currently lives in Portland, OR where he maintains a private studio of violin, viola, mandolin, and piano students.  He performs over 200 shows a year with Three for Silver, as a sideman for various local bands, and as a studio musician.  In 2018 he began performing and touring as a duo with Eliza Rickman.