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, and Trial by Jury. 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.
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