Rebecca Gilmore, cello
Rebecca S. Gilmore, an orchestral and chamber musician, is currently a Cellist with The Virginia Symphony as well as a substitute cellist for The Philadelphia Orchestra and The Baltimore Symphony 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 and the latter with which she performed Haydn's "Cello Concerto in D Major". In the Hampton Roads area (Norfolk, Virginia Beach) Ms. Gilmore has been a featured solo and chamber artist with the Virginia Arts Festival, The Virginia Symphony, the Norfolk Chamber Consort and Old Dominion University’s modern music group, Creo. Her cello career has taken her abroad to The Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada, England, The Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy and China . Within the United States 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 Orchestral Institute, and the North Carolina School of the Arts' International Music Program where she soloed with orchestra throughout Europe. In Canada she and pianist/composer Gabriela 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 Mallarme Chamber Players of Durham, North Carolina.
As a chamber musician, her latest joint venture is Ambrosia 3, a professional performing chamber ensemble, of which she is a founding member. The group came together in the fall of 2002 in order to perform a vast range of chamber music literature. Their most recent debut was on the Feldman Chamber Music Society Series where they entranced a full house of patrons of works by Shostakovich, Brahms and Beethoven. More recently Ambrosia is exploring the String Trio repertoire in pursuits of future recordings and travels abroad.
Ms. Gilmore holds a Bachelor of Music degree and a Master of Music degree in Cello Performance from Indiana and Rice Universities. Her teachers include Janos Starker, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Norman Fischer and Desmond Hoebig. Ms. Gilmore is currently a faculty member with The Academy of Music and Virginia Wesleyan College.
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