American cellist Brinton Averil Smith has appeared
throughout
the United States, including numerous performances
as soloist and chamber musician at Lincoln Center in
New York, performances at the Marlboro and Aspen music
festivals, and solo appearances with orchestras in
San Diego, Phoenix, Ft. Worth and Detroit, in addition
to appearances in Europe. Africa and New Zealand. Mr.
Smith's debut recording of the Miklos Rosza Cello Concerto
with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra was released
in 1998 on Koch International.
Mr. Smith has participated in chamber music collaborations
with
members of the Beaux Arts trio and of the Guarneri,
Emerson, Juilliard, Cleveland and Berg Quartets.
Performances for the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society
and, with Gil and Orli Shaham, for the Aspen music
festival recital series. He is
currently the principal cellist of the San Diego
Symphony Orchestra and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.
Mr Smith has been honored with prizes in numerous
competitions including the 1997 Leonard Rose International
Cello Competition and the Juilliard and Aspen Music
Festival concerto competitions. Overseas broadcast
performances include National Public Radio in Germany
and Radio South Africa.
Brinton Smith began his musical studies at age five.
At the age of
ten, he was admitted to Arizona State University,
where he took courses in mathematics and German and,
by the age of 17, completed a BA degree in mathematics.
While a scholarship student of Eleonore Schoenfeld
of the University of Southern California, he was aso
a teaching assistant in the mathematics department,
and completed work for an MA in mathematics at age
19. He subsequently relocated to New York to study
with Zara Nelsova at the Juilliard School, where he
received his masters of music degree in 1991.