RENEE NOEL GILLILAND

BIOGRAPHY

Renee Gilliland is the Associate Conductor of the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra, Music Director of the Anschutz Medical Campus Symphony Orchestra, and Cover Conductor of the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra. She is also the Assistant Conductor of the University of Denver Lamont School of Music Symphony Orchestra and Opera Theater where she is completing an Artist Diploma in Orchestral Conducting under Dr. Lawrence Golan.

In August, Gilliland made her international conducting debut with the the Lviv Philharmonic in Ukraine conducting Beethoven and Berlioz. This past summer Gilliland also served as guest conductor for the Boulder Concert Band conducting five of their summer concert series performances. She has also guest conducted the Cleveland Pops in Cleveland, Tennessee. Other ensembles she has worked with at international and national workshops include the New Symphony Orchestra in Bulgaria, the Martinu Philharmonic in the Czech Republic, and groups in Chicago, Connecticut, and New York.

Gilliland holds a Master of Music in Viola Performance with an outside area in Conducting from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She received a Bachelor of Music in Music Education and Certificate of Violin Performance from the University of Texas at Austin Butler School of Music.

Gilliland has performed as a violinist and violist with ensembles such as the Ars Nova Chamber Orchestra in Washington, D.C., with the Richmond and Columbus, Indiana Orchestras, as well as Las Cruces, New Mexico, Brazos Valley, and El Paso, Texas Symphony Orchestras. Gilliland was selected to perform with the first International YouTube Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas and performed as a Young Artist Competition Winner with the El Paso Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Gurer Aykal.

Gilliland formerly served as the String Instructor at Blinn College in Brenham, Texas and as Director of Orchestras at Morton Ranch High School in Katy, Texas. Her orchestras received superior ratings and sweepstakes awards in competitions in and outside of the state of Texas. She enjoys guest conducting for All-Region and local orchestras as well as judging at region, area and state levels.