Biography

Kate Dillingham currently enjoys an active career both in the United States and abroad. She has performed as soloist with The St. Petersburg Philharmonic, The Moscow Symphony Orchestra, The Salzburg Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. At home in New York, she appears regularly with orchestras, opera companies, and chamber music ensembles, premieres new works, and performs in the orchestra for Disney’s The Lion King on Broadway. Kate has recorded three CDs: Haydn’s Cello Concertos and music of Claude Debussy, Arthur Honegger and Gabriel Fauré for Connoisseur Society Records, and selected works of Witold Lutoslawski, Victor Herbert, Antonín Dvořák, and contemporary composer Jennifer Higdon.

She made her debut in 2002 at Merkin Concert Hall, and has appeared numerous times in recital at Carnegie Recital Hall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bargemusic, and Symphony Space in New York, and has been presented twice by invitation at the United States Supreme Court in Washington, DC.

Ms. Dillingham received both a Bachelor (summa cum laude) and a Master of Music from Rutgers University, where she studied with Bernard Greenhouse. She furthered her studies with Maria Tchaikovskaya at the Moscow Conservatory. In 2005, she and Mr. Greenhouse collaborated on an edition of the Sonatas for Violoncello and Keyboard BWV 1027-1029 by J.S. Bach, published by G. Schirmer Inc., which she presented in October 2007 in a combined concert and lecture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Ms. Dillingham is highly sought after for her polished and sensitive playing. The press has deemed her “an excellent cellist; dignified, intelligent, and compelling. An adventurous, dedicated champion of contemporary music, she performed with admirable control, conviction, and authority.”

Look for Kate at the Met in the fall of 2008!