Juliet White-Smith, Violist

Violist Juliet White-Smith     is an active soloist, chamber musician and clinician. She has performed throughout North America, in Europe and in 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 the Fontana Festival in Michigan. As an orchestral musician, she has performed in the viola sections of the Rochester Philharmonic, the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, and the 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, master class teacher and adjudicator. She has presented master classes at institutions across the country including the Eastman School of Music, The Pennsylvania State University, and the Universities of Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska-Lincoln and Utah. She was a featured presenter at the 2007 American String Teachers Association Conference in Detroit, Michigan and will return as a presenter in February 2010 in Santa Clara, California. Dr. White-Smith chaired the editorial committee for the viola section of the 2009 revised edition of the ASTA Syllabus. 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 (Fashionably Late: Juliet White-Smith Debuts!) 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. Her principals teachers include violists George Taylor and  Lawrence Wheeler, and violinists Sally O’Reilly and Fredell Lack. White-Smith holds a master’s degree in viola performance from the University of Houston and graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in violin performance from Louisiana State University. She began her college teaching career as a visiting professor at Western Michigan University at the age of twenty-five.

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