Emily Smith
violin

Emily Daggett Smith is a celebrated young violinist and chamber musician. In 2009, Ms. Smith won first prize at the Juilliard concerto competition and made her New York debut in Alice Tully Hall, playing the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Juilliard Orchestra, under the direction of Emmanuel Villaume. She has also performed as concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra under the direction ofÊJames DePreist, Nicholas McGegan, Leonard Slatkin, and Michael Tilson-Thomas.ÊShe has traveled with the orchestra to Beijing and Shanghai, as well as across the United States, performing in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Disney Hall in Los Angeles,Êthe National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, and the Shanghai Grand Theatre.

In addition to her work as a solo and orchestral musician, Ms. Smith is an active chamber musician. She has performed with such artists as Claude Frank, Joseph Kalichstein, Daniel Phillips, Laurie Smukler, Orion Weiss, and Eugenia Zukerman, in venues including Alice Tully Hall, Weill Hall, Symphony Space, and Zankel Hall. In 2005, her piano trio won Gold Medal at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in the junior division.Ê

Ms. Smith is the founding first violinist of the Tessera Quartet, an emerging New York-based ensemble. ÊHighlights of the 2009-10 season include a New York debut on the New School (Schneider) Concerts series, a special project with British pianist Hamish Milne at the Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music, and a centennial concert honoring composer and Renaissance scholar Harold Brown. ÊThe Quartet has also performed on the Tri-I Noon Recital Series at Rockefeller University. ÊThe Tessera Quartet has recently collaborated with Claude Frank and pianist/ composer Lowell Liebermann and will record Liebermann's complete quartets for Koch records.

Born in 1987, Ms. Smith grew up in the Boston area. She won various competitions in New England and performed violin concerti with the Brockton, Newton, and Waltham symphonies. She has appeared on PBS's national broadcast, Live from Lincoln Center, as well as twice on NPR's From the Top. She has participated in festivals including Kneisel Hall, the Orpheus Institute at The Juilliard School, Banff International Master Classes, and The New York String Orchestra Seminar, conducted by Jaime Laredo. For nine summers she attended Greenwood Music Camp in Cummington, Massachusetts, which fostered her deep love of chamber music. In honor of Greenwood's 75th anniversary, Ms. Smith performed Saint-Saens Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso with the Greenwood orchestra at the Hatch Shell in Boston.

In 2009 Ms. Smith received her Bachelor of Music degree from The Juilliard School, where she is now pursuing graduate studies. Her teachers have included Donald Weilerstein, Nick Eanet, Laurie Smukler, Joel Smirnoff, and Masuko Ushioda. ÊMs. Smith lives in New York City.