David Gilling for Christchurch

Press, 29 January 1986, Page 19

David Gilling for Christchurch

David Gilling has been appointed as violin tutor at the Christchurch Conservatoire.

He will replace Paulene Smith, who has left Christchurch for Australia.

Mr Gilling was a student at the Conservatoire until 1980 when he was awarded an Associated Board scholarship to study at the Royal College of Music. There, he studied with Rodney Friend, the only nonAmerican to lead the New York Philharmonic, and now leader of the London Symphony Orchestra, and with Hugh Bean, the leader of all five of London’s great symphony orchestras.

Since 1982, he has been a regular member of the orchestra run by the Britten Pears school at Alde-

burgh, and has played under Sir Georg Solti, Sir Colin Davis, George Mai-

colm, Sir David Willcocks and Murray Perahia as well as the composers Takemitsu and Lutos-

lawski. Scholarships enabled him to spend two periods

at the Orford Arts Centre, Canada, where his teachers were Leonard Posner, former concertmaster of the National Broadcasting Corporation and Dallas Symphony Orchestras, Mauricio Fuks, a pupil of Heifetz, and Eleonore Schoenfeld, head of strings at the University of California, in Los Angeles. While still at the R.C.M., he played in the 8.8. C. Philharmonic. After graduating, he freelanced, playing in the 8.8. C. Phil-

harmonic (including the Prom season) and 8.8. C. Symphony Orchestras among others.

Mr Gilling will also play in the Christchurrch Symphony Orchestra.