Christopher Kilday has traveled and played music throughout Europe, South America, the Caribbean and the US. He has written and performed music for Destination Weddings, motion picture soundtracks and commercial songs. His most recent Destination Wedding  was in  Santorini, Greece for Jim and Bei Bei Hawley. He is featured in the Spring 2008 issue of “ Destination Weddings & Honeymoons”.

Christopher lived in Morelia, Mexico, 2007-2008 studying classical guitar with  Argentinian virtuoso Victor Pellegrini at the Conservatory of the Roses, America’s oldest music school, founded in  1743.

Christopher studied jazz guitar with Art Johnson of San Diego from 1997- 1999. In 2000 and 2001 he was invited to study with composer, arranger, performer Mauricio Carilho of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil at the Itajai Music Festival in Brazil.

Christopher has traveled ‘too many times to recall’ to  Cuba to study classical guitar and Tres (Cuban folk guitar) at the national conservatory, The Instituto de Arte Superior, Habana, Cuba with master arranger, composer, performer, luthier Jose Antonio Perez "Guajiro," of Cienfuego, Cuba. He has also studied with the legendary founder of the “ Filin Movement’ ,  Cuban composer & guitarist, Nico Rojas.

Christopher is a Composer whose music is featured in the film "Zemad's Journey" (2003) and the Internationally televised, “Classical Stretch”.

In 2001 Christopher began studying the Sarod at the Ali Akbar College of Music in Marin, CA with the Maestro Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. He has also studied the Tablas with master percussionist Pandit Swapan Choudry.

Christopher Kilday has performed with Blue Note recording artist Stefon Harris, Kim Wilson, Roman Filiu (saxophonist, composer from Cuban supergroup Irakere), members of Chucho Valdez quartet, members of the Afro-Cuban All Stars, sarodist Swapnamoy Banerjee, tabla player Kousic Sen, and jazz bassist Jeff Chambers, and Marcus Shelby. Christopher was a member of the SFSU Afro-Cuban Ensemble directed by John Calloway.

Christopher  performs regularly   in the Bay Area and beyond. He has private guitar, bass, voice, and is a director of teen rock ensembles. He is a recent graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he studied with guitarist Richard Savino.