David Meyer is a professional cellist and recording artist based in Cary, NC. He is a member of the North Carolina Symphony and performs regularly throughout North Carolina.

David has performed solo, symphonic, and chamber music in Europe and North America as part of the festivals at Verbier, Schleswig-Holstein, Britten- Pears, Moritzburg, Viana do Castelo, and Colorado College. He served as principal cellist of the Atlantic Music Festival Orchestra, Britten-Pears Festival Orchestra, American Youth Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, and Claremont Young Musician's Orchestra, also appearing in various concerto performances. David gave the European Premiere performance of the Sonata for Solo Violoncello by Los Angeles composer NL Qosqadi in 2007, as well as several Boston premiers (BNMI). A zealous chamber musician, he was the cellist of Tetrachord, performing in New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, and was a founding member of the Discovery Ensemble of Boston.

After childhood cello training with Rick Mooney, David had further schooling at the Chicago and Ithaca Suzuki Institutes, NCI, World Cello Congress, and Encore School for Strings. He studied at USC with Eleonore Schoenfeld. Other teachers include Nathaniel Rosen, Laurence Lesser, David Ying, Bion Tsang, Gilda Barston, Ivan Monighetti, Peter Stumpf, Bernhard Gmelin, Mark Kosower, and Michael Tilson Thomas. In chamber music his mentors include Midori, Kim Kashkashian, and David Dunford. He has been coached by Jan Vogler, Roger Tapping, Robert Mann, Victor Sazer, Joel Smirnoff, Donald Weilerstein, and the Borromeo, Cavani, St. Lawrence, and Ying String Quartets. He is a member of the Cello Fourum, a triangle area based cello quartet. He has performed as a guest artist at many institutions including Davidson College, UNC Chapel Hill, Duke University, Reed College, and Pomona College National Cello Institute.

David holds a Bachelor's of Music degree from the USC Thornton School of Music and a Master's of Music from the New England Conservatory in Boston. After two years as a fellow in the New World Symphony in Miami joined the cello section of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra in the 2012-2013 season. In 2013 he was appointed to the cello section of the North Carolina Symphony. He resides in Cary with his family and enjoys practicing, teaching, cooking, painting, tennis, home studio work, and chasing around his two busy children.