Timothy Dilenschneider was appointed associate principal double bass of the Houston Symphony in 2019. Prior to joining the Houston Symphony, Dilenschneider was a member of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under the baton of music director Marin Alsop. During the summers, he is an active performer in prestigious music festivals including Festival Napa Valley, Lakes Area Music Festival, Arizona Musicfest, and Classical Tahoe where he is the recipient of an endowed chair. 

An avid lover of travel, Dilenschneider’s orchestral performances have taken him around the world. He has been invited to participate in international tours across Europe, Asia, and Africa with distinguished orchestras such as the Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, and Baltimore Symphony. He has performed in some of the world’s most notable halls including Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw, Musikverein, Suntory Hall, Theatre des Champs-Élysées, National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, and Royal Albert Hall in London for the BBC Proms.

In addition to his orchestral work, Dilenschneider has performed in numerous recitals and chamber music programs including Napa Valley Chamber Festival, Classical Tahoe Chamber Music series, and Marin Alsop’s New Music Festival. Among his chamber music and chamber orchestra highlights are a month-long tour across Japan with the New York Symphonic Ensemble and a 2018 tour of Morocco with musicians from the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, featuring a performance in the desert of Agafay.

Alongside performing, Dilenschneider has been invited to teach at the National Orchestral Institute, Blackburn Music Academy, and as visiting faculty for the New World Symphony. His passion for music education has led him to work with students at the Peabody Institute of Music, Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, and University of Miami’s Frost School of Music, as well as youth orchestras in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Houston. He has been featured in magazines such as ISB Bass World and Next Level Bassist. He is also recorded on the Grammy Award winning CD “East Coast 2×4”.

Dilenschneider began playing the double bass at age 8 and studied with “Time for Three” bassist Ranaan Meyer, prior to his studies with Harold Robinson and Edgar Meyer. He is an alumnus of the New World Symphony and a 2014 graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music.