JULIET WHITE-SMITH
Viola

Violist Juliet White-Smith is an active international soloist, chamber musician and clinician. She has performed as soloist with the Thailand Philharmonic, the Fort Collins Symphony and the Centennial (now Denver) Philharmonic. She has been a guest artist at Strings in the Mountains and the Fontana Festival in Michigan. She has performed in the viola sections of the Rochester Philharmonic, the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, and the Grand Rapids Symphony.

White-Smith is in demand as a master class teacher, clinician and adjudicator. She has presented master classes at Mahidol University College of Music in Thailand, the Eastman School of Music and for the annual conference of the American String Teachers Association. She was the featured pedagogue in “Ask the Teacher” in the April 2010 issue of The Strad magazine. She has been a string juror for the William Primrose International Viola Competition, the annual concerto competition of the Texas Association of Symphony Orchestras and the Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra Young Artists Concerto Competition.

A prominent advocate of the viola, White-Smith served as President of the American Viola Society 2008-11. Her debut CD recording of works by contemporary American composers George Walker, Michael Colgrass and Maurice Gardner (Fashionably Late: Juliet White-Smith Debuts!) was released in May 2009 on the Centaur Records label.
White-Smith earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Eastman School of Music. Prior to her appointment at the University of Northern Colorado, she was a visiting professor at Western Michigan University.

More information about Juliet White-Smith, including links to her compact disc recording, Fashionably Late: Juliet White-Smith Debuts!, can be found on her website at www.julietwhite-smith.com