Gregory Zuber is the Principal Percussionist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. He has been a member of the orchestra since 1986. He has toured the United States, Europe, and Japan with the Met and performed with the orchestra as a concerto soloist at Carnegie Hall. He can be heard regularly on MET Opera radio broadcasts, satellite radio broadcasts, and HD movie theater broadcasts.

He has appeared as solo recitalist and in chamber music at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall and Weill Recital Hall, the Verbier Music Festival, the Leigh Stevens Marimba Seminar, and the New York Chamber Music festival, the Juilliard Summer Percussion Seminar, and Chamber Music from Angel Fire. He performs regularly with the MET Chamber Ensemble. Mr. Zuber has the pleasure of performing chamber music with his wife, flutist Patricia Zuber.

He has premiered many works and received works from numerous commissions including those by Seymour Barab, Eric Ewazen, Wayne Petersen, Hsueh-Yung Shen, William Susman, Jude Vaclavik, Alejandro Viñao, and Charles Wuorinen.

He has taught at The Juilliard School since 1993 and been a coach for the Verbier Music Festival since 2000. His students have gone on to play with many of the most esteemed orchestras in the world.

Mr. Zuber was born in Boston and grew up in Chicago. As a student he sang in the Chicago Children’s Choir, attended the National Music Camp (now the Interlochen Center for the Arts), the Interlochen Arts Academy, the University of Illinois, and graduate school at Temple University. As a student, he was a member of the National Repertory Orchestra and a Fellow at the Tanglewood Center for the Arts, as well as performing in the Chicago Civic Orchestra.