Susanna Perry Gilmore

Concertmaster of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra since 1997. Ms. Gilmore currently serves as Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Violin at the University of Memphis and has been a member of the Interlochen Summer Arts Camp faculty since 2007. She has served on the summer faculty of the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts, Hot Springs Music Festival, and as an instructor in Celtic Fiddle at the Memphis Suzuki Institute. Ms. Gilmore received her Bachelor’s in Music at Oxford University, England, and spent a year of post-graduate study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where she studied with violinist Yfrah Neaman. She received her Master’s degree in Violin Performance at New England Conservatory under the instruction of James Buswell. Prior to her studies in England, Ms. Gilmore studied with Christian Teal at the Blair School of Music and with Mimi Zweig at Indiana University.