Pittsburgh Symphony Concertmaster Appointed to Music Faculty

David McCarroll, the concertmaster of the PSO, has been appointed as an artist lecturer in violin at the CMU School of Music.

David McCarroll, the concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, has been named an Artist Lecturer in Violin at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Music. He is to join the faculty in the Fall 2024 semester.

Prior to joining the PSO in 2022, McCarroll performed as a soloist with some of the world’s most notable orchestras including the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich and Hong Kong Sinfonietta. He was also a member of the Vienna Piano Trio, performing and touring with them for seven years and winning the Echo Klassik and Opus Klassik awards for their recordings.

He taught violin at Mozarteum University Salzburg, and gave masterclasses at San Francisco Conservatory, the Ravinia Steans Music Institute and the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. McCarroll’s education included studies at the Yehudi Menuhin School, New England Conservatory of Music, and the Hanns Eisler Academy in Berlin.

"I am very much looking forward to working with a small class of violin students at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Music,” McCarroll said, “guiding them through these formative years of study and giving them the tools, both musical and technical, to achieve an ever-expanding range of expression."

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