DAVID KILBRIDE ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Chicago native David Kilbride joined the North Carolina Symphony as Assistant Principal Second Violin in 2007. He has been featured as a soloist with the Symphony, performing “Summer” from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. Kilbride also enjoyed playing Celtic fiddle on the Symphony’s “Blue Skies and Golden Sands” tour, as well as on the “Showstoppers” concert series.

Kilbride studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Bernard Goldschmidt, principal second violinist of The Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell. Other principal teachers include renowned teachers and chamber musicians Linda Cerone, Dr. James Stern, and Kay Stern. He was selected to perform with Sir George Solti in the Solti Orchestral Project at Carnegie Hall. After serving as concertmaster with the New World Symphony, he won an international audition to become a member of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.

After returning to the U.S., Kilbride served as Assistant Concertmaster of the Stockton Symphony and a member of the Pacific Symphony and Opera Pacific Orchestra in California. In Virginia, he was a member of the Richmond Symphony and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra.

Kilbride has played on several recordings, one of his favorites being Ray Charles’ final recording, Genius Loves Company. He is an avid baseball fan and as a teenager got his first job as an usher at Wrigley Field in Chicago.

Kilbride has been a private teacher for over 25 years and was appointed director of the String Ensemble at Raleigh Charter High School in 2012. He frequently coaches string sectionals for Triangle Youth Music and is a chamber music coach for the NC Chamber Music Institute. He has served as a faculty member of ECU’s inaugural String Camp, as a violin and viola judge for the Eastern Regional Orchestra auditions, and as a judge for the North Carolina Symphony’s Kathleen Price and Joseph M. Bryan Youth Concerto Competition. He performs on a Georg Kloz violin, circa 1755.