Jeremy Black, Principal Second Violin of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra since 2017, initially joined the orchestra as a member of the first violins under Mariss Jansons in 2002. He also serves as the concertmaster of the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra each summer in Chicago. Black has performed as concertmaster with orchestras across the U.S., including the Minnesota Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Making his solo debut at 12 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, more recent solo highlights include a performance of the Dvořák Violin Concerto with Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with Giancarlo Guerrero and the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra.
 
Black is sought-after as a teacher as well as a performer. He maintains an active private studio, is the coach of Chamber Music Pittsburgh’s competitive Montgomery Fellowship Quartet program, and is the first violin coach for the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra (PYSO) and Three Rivers Young People’s Orchestra (YPO). He has given master classes at many schools and universities, including Roosevelt University, Pennsylvania State University, Sphinx Performance Academy at Northwestern University, and Midwest Young Artists Conservatory.
 
A native of Evanston, Illinois, Black was a student of the late Mark Zinger, a student and colleague of David Oistrakh. He then studied with Linda Cerone in a joint program at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Music, and with Paul Kantor at the University of Michigan. Black plays a violin made by Lorenzo and Tommaso Carcassi, dated 1783.
 
This is his first appearance at PMF.