Juliet White-Smith

With a career spanning over three-and-a-half decades, Juliet White-Smith is an accomplished violist, engaging and dynamic clinician, and expert string pedagogue. She has performed throughout the United States and abroad and has worked extensively as an orchestral musician performing in the sections of the Houston Grand Opera, Grand Rapids Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic and Columbus Symphony orchestras. A frequent presenter and master class clinician, she has appeared at conferences of the American String Teachers Association, the American and International Viola Societies and Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic. She has performed as soloist with the Thailand Philharmonic, Fort Collins Symphony and Hays (KS) Symphony orchestras. She was a member of the Artist-Faculty at the Brevard Music Festival in North Carolina from 2018-2023. She has been an adjudicator for prominent career-advancing competitions including the William Primrose International Viola Competition and the Yellow Springs
Chamber Music Competition.

White-Smith was President of the American Viola Society from 2008-2011. Her 2009 album Fashionably Late: Juliet White-Smith Debuts! features the premiere recording of Pulitzer Prize winner George Walker’s Viola Sonata (1989), available on the Centaur Records label.

A native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, White-Smith joined the faculty at The Ohio State University School of Music in 2012 having previously held positions at the University of Northern Colorado and Western Michigan University. She holds degrees from Eastman School of Music (DMA), University of Houston (MM) and Louisiana State University (BM in violin).

White-Smith enjoys cycling and is a certified yoga instructor (RYT200) and Licensed Body Mapping Educator.