Falletta & Perry Gilmore

Multiple GRAMMY® Award-winning conductor JoAnn Falletta is Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, Music Director Laureate of the Virginia Symphony, Principal Guest Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Omaha Symphony, Principal Guest Conductor of the Brevard Music Center, and Conductor Laureate of the Hawaii Symphony. She is recognized by Gramophone Magazine as one of the “Fifty Great Conductors” of all time, and by ASCAP as “a leading force for music of our time.” As Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, Falletta became the first woman to lead a major American orchestra. She has overseen one of the orchestra’s most productive recording and touring eras, bringing the Philharmonic to an unprecedented level of national and international prominence. The Buffalo Philharmonic has released more than thirty-five recordings on the Naxos label and an extensive catalog on its own Beau Fleuve label. The BPO is ranked as one of the top five orchestras of CD releases on international labels. JoAnn Falletta has led the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra on major international and US tours, highlighted by their historic 2018 tour to Poland, where the BPO became the first American orchestra to perform at the prestigious Beethoven Festival in Warsaw, as well as six concert…

Susanna Perry Gilmore enjoys a multifaceted career as solo artist, chamber musician, and orchestral concertmaster. Performing on both modern and period instruments and versatile in diverse styles from classical to fiddling, she has been concertmaster of the Omaha Symphony since 2011 and a principal player with Apollo’s Fire since 2014. Ms. Gilmore performs regularly as a soloist with the Omaha Symphony on a wide range of repertoire including the Scottish Fantasy by Max Bruch, Ravel Tzigane, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, and violin concerti by Berg, Walton, Mozart, Korngold and Prokofiev. In 2016, utilizing her experience with Celtic fiddling, she co-created the symphonic pops show Celtic Journey in collaboration with the Omaha Symphony and guitarist William Coulter which blends traditional Irish music, dance, songs and storytelling and has appeared with symphonies around North America including Detroit, Nashville, Indianapolis and Edmonton. Ms. Gilmore also curates the Omaha Symphony’s Cathedral/Baroque concerts as co-artistic director and leader. On baroque violin and fiddle Ms. Gilmore performs with acclaimed period instrument ensemble and Grammy Award winner Apollo’s Fire (Cleveland), with whom she tours nationally and internationally and appears on the CD Sugarloaf Mountain: An Appalachian Gathering (Billboard Top 10 classical bestseller), the CD Sephardic Journey: Wanderings of the Spanish Jews (Billboard Top 10 classical bestseller), Christmas on Sugarloaf Mountain, and upcoming releases of Bach’s B minor Mass and St. Matthew Passion. Ms. Gilmore holds a Bachelor’s degree…