This concert is Chelsea Gallo's debut with the North Carolina Symphony

For the 2022/23 season, Chelsea Gallo has served as Assistant Conductor to The Florida Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, a cover conductor for the New York Philharmonic, and a regular guest conductor with Virginia Symphony and Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. She is a 2022 Award Recipient of the George Solti Foundation USA career fellowship. During the 2021/22 season, she was Assistant Conductor of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Conducting Fellow with the Dallas Opera, and cover conductor with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, as well as serving on the conducting staff for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

As a guest conductor, Gallo has conducted the Jackson Symphony Orchestra, Hartford Opera Theater, Toledo Symphony Orchestra, and Slovak Sinfonietta, among others. She has worked with organizations such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Lockheed Martin, the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA), and the European Space Agency (ESA), and led recording projects for the Orion ETF- 1 Launch Mission. She was recently invited on behalf of the Nuclear Engineering department at the University of Michigan to partner on a project geared towards encouraging creativity within the hard sciences by drawing parallels between running a nuclear reactor and leading a symphony orchestra.

Gallo studied conducting in Vienna, Prague, and Banská Štiavnica (in Slovakia) with the late Maksimilijan Cenčić and Leoš Svárovský. In Vienna, she studied piano with Giorgi Latsabidze and violin with Barbara Górzyńska. Gallo holds a doctorate in music from the University of Michigan, where she was awarded the Helen Wu Graduate Fellowship in conducting. At Michigan she studied with conductor and educator Kenneth Kiesler and assisted Martin Katz and Kathleen Kelly on opera productions.