DAVID PREMO

Cellist David Premo joined the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 1992, and has been Associate Principal since 2001. He has also been Artist-Lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University since 1994. David Premo came to Pittsburgh from Washington D.C., where he served as Associate Principal of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra from 1980 until 1991. During his tenure in Washington, he performed chamber music at the Phillips Collection, the Corcoran Gallery and the Library of Congress, and served on numerous occasions as principal cellist with the American Chamber Orchestra, the National Gallery Orchestra and the Wolf Trap Festival Orchestra, among others.

He performed as a member of the National Symphony Orchestra, both at the Kennedy Center and on several United States and European tours. In 1995 David Premo and Christopher Wu (violinist with the PSO and winner of the 1994 Passamaneck Award) won the Pittsburgh Concert Society Competition. In 1996 David Premo won the prestigious Passamaneck Award entitling him to a solo recital which he gave in Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Hall in April 1997.

He studied cello in his native Chicago with Margaret Evans of the Chicago Symphony, later with Robert Newkirk at Catholic University, and most recently with János Starker at Indiana University. His cello was made in approximately 1860 by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume.