Christopher Kilday has traveled and played music throughout Europe, South America, the Caribbean and the US. He has written and performed music for weddings, motion picture soundtracks and commercial songs. His most recent event was a wedding,  June 2006, in  Santorini, Greece for Jim and Bei Bei Hawley.
   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 to Cuba for the past five summers to study classical guitar and tres (Cuban folk guitar) at 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 acclaimed Cuban composer, guitarist, Nico Rojas. Christopher is a Composer whose music is featured in the film "Zemad's Journey" (2003).
   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 is currently teaching guitar and bass students in the Bay area, and is a student at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where he studies classical guitar.