Violist Juliet White-Smith is an active soloist and chamber musician. She has performed throughout North America, Europe and the Middle East. She has appeared at three International Viola Congresses: in Montreal in 2006, and in Tempe, Arizona in 2008 and in August 2009 in Stellenbosch, South Africa outside Cape Town. Her chamber music collaborations have brought her onstage with such luminaries as violinists Andres Cardenes and Benny Kim and pianist Gilbert Kalish.
She has been a guest artist at various summer music festivals including Strings in the Mountains and Fontana Festival in Michigan. As an orchestral musician, she has performed in the viola sections of Rochester Philharmonic, Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, and Grand Rapids Symphony.
A devoted educator with a history of printed contributions in American String Teacher and Journal of the American Viola Society, Dr. White-Smith is in demand as a clinician and master class teacher. She has presented master classes at institutions across the country including the Eastman School of Music, the Universities of Iowa, Nebraska-Lincoln and Utah. She was a clinician at the 2007 American String Teachers Association Conference in Detroit, Michigan and will return as a clinician in February 2010 in Santa Clara, California
She has served as string juror for various competitions including 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. Dr. White-Smith has taught on the faculties of the Interlochen Arts Camp and Bravo! Summer Institute for Strings and Piano at the University of Minnesota.
A prominent advocate of the viola, Dr. White-Smith is currently President of the American Viola Society. Her debut CD recording of works by contemporary American composers George Walker, Michael Colgrass and Maurice Gardner was released in May 2009 on the Centaur Records label.
Dr. White-Smith earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Eastman School of Music. She also holds music degrees from the University of Houston and Louisiana State University. She joined the faculty at the University of Northern Colorado in 1991. Prior to her appointment at UNC, she was on the faculty at Western Michigan University.
More information about Dr. White-Smith, including media kit and links to her newly released CD, Fashionably Late: Juliet White-Smith Debuts!, can be found on her website at www.julietwhite-smith.com
