Named Best
Musical Director of the 3rd International Gilbert & Sullivan
Festival, Florrie has conducted our productions of The Gondoliers,
H.M.S. Pinafore, The Mikado, Patience, The Pirates of Penzance,
Princess Ida, Ruddigore, The Sorcerer, Thespis, Trial by Jury and
Utopia Limited. She
began conducting the G&S repertoire with the Ridgewood (NJ)
Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company, later returning often as
guest conductor. Other directing credits include the Ridgewood High
School Alumni Band, the Glen Rock (NJ) Pops, and the Allenberry
Playhouse, a professional theater in the Harrisburg area, as well as
the world premiere production of Moll Flanders, a Broadway-bound
musical. In addition to her conducting activities, she is currently the
pianist/keyboardist for the contemporary worship services at Temple
Lutheran Church in Havertown. An accomplished composer with many
premieres to her credit, she has an output which includes settings of
several of Gilbert's Bab Ballads. For many years a professional
violinist in New York City, Florrie studied with Ruggiero Ricci and
later played with the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra. She studied
composition and violin at the Juilliard School and holds degrees from
Gettysburg College and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro,
where she was Assistant Director of the Collegium Musicum.