Longwood Symphony - 2025 Gala

Hyatt Regency Boston

Dr. Terry L. Buchmiller

Pediatric Surgeon, Boston Children’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Terry L. Buchmiller is a pediatric surgeon in the Department of Pediatric Surgery at Boston Children's Hospital and Associate Professor of Surgery at the Harvard Medical School.  She received her M.D. from the University of California at Davis, graduating as her class valedictorian.  She trained in general surgery at the UCLA Medical Center where she also spent two years in the pediatric surgical research laboratory. She completed her pediatric surgical fellowship in 1997 at Boston Children’s Hospital, being the first woman trainee.

Terry is board certified in both General Surgery and Pediatric Surgery.  She performs the full spectrum of pediatric surgery, with particular expertise in fetal surgery, prenatal counseling, and the care of newborns with surgical disease.  She is the lead pediatric surgeon in the Maternal Fetal Care Center.  She is an examiner for the American Board of Surgery, and has chaired both the Fetal and Wellness Committees of the American Pediatric Surgical Association.  She is the Past President of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and served nationally as an ACS Governor, including the Executive Committee.

In 2019 she received the Robert P. Masland, Jr. Teaching Award from Harvard Medical School, awarded to only one faculty member from over 1700 at Boston Children’s Hospital, her most cherished accomplishment.

A former music major, she has delighted in playing the violin with the Longwood Symphony for over 20 years, and has served on the Membership Committee. She is an avid runner, and has completed 5 of the world major marathons with her running friends.

Nashua Arts - Symphony NH - It’s All Overtures

Nashua Center for the Arts

Most overtures act as musical synopsis hinting at themes or motives to come. Others are completely unique and have little if any reference to the forthcoming program. This performance will feature some of the most well-known overtures from Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro to Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story.

Fanny Mendelssohn Overture in C Major
Leonard Bernstein Overture to West Side Story arr. Peress
Gioachino Rossini Overture to William Tell
Wolfgang Mozart Overture to Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
Scott Joplin Overture to Treemonisha
Quinn Mason Toast of the Town
Pietro Mascagni Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana
Johannes Brahms Academic Festival Overture
Guiseppe Verdi Overture to Nabucco

Symphony NH - It's All Overtures

Nashua Center for the Arts

Most overtures act as musical synopsis hinting at themes or motives to come. Others are completely unique and have little, if any, reference to the forthcoming program. This performance will feature some of the most well-known overtures from Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro to Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story.