Susanna Perry Gilmore

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 from Oxford University (UK), where she studied musicology and performed both early music and symphonic repertoire while studying privately with Yfrah Neaman. She spent a post-graduate year in the Advanced Solo Studies Program at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Upon returning to the United States, she earned a Master’s in Violin Performance from the New England Conservatory, where she studied with James Buswell. Prior to her studies in England, Ms. Gilmore studied with Christian Teal at the Blair School of Music in the pre-college program and as a child began her violin studies with Mimi Zweig at Indiana University. Ms. Gilmore learned to play Celtic fiddle in her youth through sitting in on Irish sessions during her years living in Nashville and England.

When not working as a classical and baroque violinist and fiddler, Ms. Gilmore spends time with her two daughters, Katy and Zoe, and her husband, Viseslav Drincic. She performs on a 1776 Joseph Odoardi violin and a Pierre Charette baroque violin.