David Rose

Violist David Rose has served as a titled player of numerous orchestras, including Associate Principal of the Vancouver Symphony, Principal Viola of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, and Acting Assistant Principal of the San Francisco Symphony. Currently, he performs regularly with the Pro-Musica Chamber Orchestra. Also active as a baroque performer, he has toured and recorded with Toronto’s Tafelmusik. Mr. Rose studied viola at the University of British Columbia, and also Indiana University. His main teachers included Gerald Stanick, Atar Arad and Stanley Ritchie.

He serves as associate professor of Viola at Fredonia State University (New York), and teaches in the summer at the Rocky Ridge Young Artists Seminar in the Colorado Rockies, as well as the Fredonia Summer String Festival. In 2024, he was also visiting viola professor at the University of Maryland.