RENEE NOEL GILLILAND

BIOGRAPHY

Renee Gilliland conducts the University of Colorado at Boulder Campus Orchestra where she is pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree under the instruction of Maestro Gary Lewis. She is also the Assistant Conductor of the CU Symphony, Philharmonia, and Chamber Orchestras as well as the Assistant and Cover Conductor of the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra. Previously, Gilliland was the Music Director of the Anschutz Medical Campus Symphony Orchestra in Aurora, Colorado and Associate Conductor of the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra. She was awarded an Artist Diploma in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Denver where she was the Assistant Conductor of the Lamont School of Music Symphony and Opera Theater Orchestras.

Gilliland has had the opportunity to conduct Strauss's Perpetuum Mobile with the El Paso Symphony as a guest at their Pop Goes the Fort Fourth of July performance at Fort Bliss. In August 2018, Gilliland had the opportunity to conduct Beethoven and Berlioz in performance with the Lviv Philharmonic in Ukraine at the International Conducting Workshop and Festival. Gilliland has 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 also 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 section 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. Gilliland has also enjoyed being a guest clinician and conductor for the Denver Public Schools Intermediate Orchestra in the Citywide Orchestra Festival.