Cellist David Premo joined the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 1992 and was awarded the position of associate principal in 2001. He has been artist-lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University since 1994, providing private cello instruction, coaching chamber music groups and teaching an orchestra repertoire class. David Premo studied cello in his native Chicago with Margaret Evans of the Chicago Symphony, later with Robert Newkirk at the Catholic University, and most recently with János Starker at Indiana University. His cello was made in approximately 1860 by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume.