REBECCA GILMORE
CELLO
Rebecca Gilmore, an orchestral and chamber musician, is currently Assistant Principal Cello with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Gilmore also performs with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and the Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestra. Previously she was Principal Cellist of the Greensboro Symphony where she made her solo debut performing Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations. Earlier in her career she soloed with the Charlotte Symphony and the Charlotte Repertory Orchestra, performing Haydn's Cello Concerto in D-major with the latter. In May 2010 Ms. Gilmore was broadcast live on NPR for a performance of Schubert's Guitar Quartet with JoAnn Falletta and Virginia Symphony colleagues on a Virginia Arts Festival series. She has been a featured solo and chamber artist with the Virginia Arts Festival, the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, the Norfolk Chamber Consort, and on college series at Old Dominion University and Virginia Wesleyan College. Her cello career has taken her abroad to the Banff Centre for the Arts (Alberta, Canada), England, the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, and China. Within the U.S. she has both taught and performed with numerous music festivals including the Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestra, the Brevard Music Center, Garth Newel Chamber Music Center, the National Repertory Orchestra, the National Orchestra Institute, and the North Carolina School of the Arts' International Music Program where she soloed with the orchestra throughout Europe. In Canada, she and pianist/composer Gabriele Frank performed Frank's world premiere of Rios Profundos, which was recently released on a Capstone Records label titled It Won't Be the Same River with the Mallarmé Chamber Players of Durham, North Carolina.
As a chamber musician, she is cellist and a founding member of the Ambrosia Quartet, a professional performing chamber ensemble. The group came together in the fall of 2002 in order to perform a vast range of chamber music literature, and in 2005 performed for the Feldman Chamber Music Society Series where they entranced a full house with works by Shostakovich, Brahms, and Beethoven. They have been featured on the Familiar Faces Series at Virginia Wesleyan College, the Virginia Arts Festival, and on the Music in Your Life Series in Williamsburg, Virginia. The Ambrosia Quartet has traveled throughout Hampton Roads to North Carolina and as far reaching as China to perform. More recently the Ambrosia Quartet has been exploring both quartet and trio repertoire in pursuit of future recordings.
Ms. Gilmore holds a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music in cello performance from Indiana and Rice Universities. Her teachers include Janos Starker, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Norman Fischer, and Desmond Hoebig. Ms. Gilmore is currently teaching Suzuki Cello with the Academy of Music (Norfolk, VA), is on faculty at Virginia Wesleyan College, and summers at the New England Music Camp in Maine.
As a chamber musician, she is cellist and a founding member of the Ambrosia Quartet, a professional performing chamber ensemble. The group came together in the fall of 2002 in order to perform a vast range of chamber music literature, and in 2005 performed for the Feldman Chamber Music Society Series where they entranced a full house with works by Shostakovich, Brahms, and Beethoven. They have been featured on the Familiar Faces Series at Virginia Wesleyan College, the Virginia Arts Festival, and on the Music in Your Life Series in Williamsburg, Virginia. The Ambrosia Quartet has traveled throughout Hampton Roads to North Carolina and as far reaching as China to perform. More recently the Ambrosia Quartet has been exploring both quartet and trio repertoire in pursuit of future recordings.
Ms. Gilmore holds a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music in cello performance from Indiana and Rice Universities. Her teachers include Janos Starker, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Norman Fischer, and Desmond Hoebig. Ms. Gilmore is currently teaching Suzuki Cello with the Academy of Music (Norfolk, VA), is on faculty at Virginia Wesleyan College, and summers at the New England Music Camp in Maine.
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MAYU KURODA CIPRIANO
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BEVERLY KANE BAKER
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