The Award-Winning Music of John Williams

The versatile Ernest Richardson is in high demand as conductor, composer, arranger, organizational leader and inspirational speaker. His versatility finds him within one season conducting Stravinsky's Firebird Suite or Broadway artists in the works of Leonard Bernstein, a live-to-movie production of Harry Potter, facilitating strategic decision-making for leading arts organizations, or training young musicians for the passionate, persistent pursuit of perfection. He has been at the forefront of symphonic video/live music productions, conducting live-to-movie scores of the Harry Potter series with CineConcerts, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Back to the Future, Pirates of the Caribbean, Singing in the Rain, Casablanca, Ratatouille, Star Trek (2009), the Charlie Chaplin silent film The Gold Rush and Star Wars.May 2020 marked his live-in-concert album debut with indie rock band Guster on OMAGAH! for their live performance with the Omaha Symphony in collaboration with the MAHA Music Festival in February 2019. The recording is available on guster.bandcamp.com or gustermerch.com. Richardson is presently the principal pops conductor and resident conductor of the Omaha Symphony at his appointment in 2015. Since 1993, he has laid the groundwork for and led in the development of the Omaha Symphony’s vaunted education and community engagement programs. In addition to his artistic…

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…