Juliet White-Smith    , Violist

Violist Juliet White-Smith is an active soloist and chamber musician. She has performed on three continents, and was most recently a featured performer at the 37^th International Viola Congress in South Africa. Her chamber music collaborations have brought her onstage with such luminaries as violinists Andres Cardenes and Benny Kim, pianist Gilbert Kalish, the Merling Trio and the Da Vinci Quartet. She is Professor of Viola at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley.

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. She was recently featured in an article in the April 2010 issue of The Strad, Britain’s “Voice of the String Music World Since 1890.”

A devoted educator with a history of printed contributions in American String Teacher and Journal of the American Viola Society, Dr. White-Smith is a regular conference presenter and clinician, most recently at the ASTA National Conference in Santa Clara, CA. She has presented master classes at music schools around the country including the Eastman School of Music, Penn State University, and the Universities of Iowa, Nebraska-Lincoln and Utah.

She has served as string juror for prominent music competitions including the William Primrose International Viola Competition, the annual Juanita Miller Concerto Competition in Dallas, 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.

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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