Nebraska’s Omaha Symphony has announced the appointment of SUSANNA PERRY GILMORE as concertmaster. Since 1997 she has served as concertmaster of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra in Tennessee, and during the 2011-12 season she will continue to hold that post concurrently with her service in Omaha; the Memphis Symphony has announced that it will hold auditions to identify her successor. Gilmore has played a key role in the development of Opus One, the MSO’s musician-run conductorless concert series, and Leading from Every Chair, its workshop and rehearsal-demonstration project for corporate executives and other non-musicians. She has been a regular concerto soloist with the MSO, and has been active as a teacher (currently at the University of Memphis and at Michigan’s Interlochen Summer Arts Camp), chamber musician, and recording artist. She received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University under the tutelage of violinist Yfrah Neaman, and holds a master’s from New England Conservatory, where she studied with James Buswell. Gilmore was also a fellow at Tanglewood Music Center, the Norfolk Music Festival, and the Sarasota Chamber Music Festival.
Posted August 23, 2011
