Ms. Susanna Perry Gilmore, concertmaster of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra since 1997, maintains an active schedule of solo recitals and chamber music collaborations throughout the country. Ms. Gilmore currently serves as Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Violin at the University of Memphis and this summer will return to Interlochen Summer Arts Camp as the Valade Violin Fellow. She has been on the summer faculty of the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts, Hot Springs Music Festival in Arkansas, Washington Island Chamber Music Festival in Wisconsin, and as an instructor of Celtic fiddle at the Memphis Suzuki Institute. Ms. Gilmore received her Bachelor's in Music at Oxford University in 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. Ms. Gilmore has recorded for the Naxos, Dorian, Island and Cadre record labels.