Violist Katrina Smith began her music studies in a public school music program in Charlottesville, Virginia. Katrina graduated from the Peabody Conservatory as a student of Karen Tuttle, and from the Yale School of Music, where she studied with Jesse Levine. She has also coached extensively with Burton Kaplan. A fellow at Tanglewood for two summers, she also attended the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. In 1989, she was awarded a Fulbright Grant to study baroque violin with Sigiswald Kuijken at the Royal Conservatory at The Hague, and subsequently went on several tours of Italy and Germany with baroque ensembles. In the U.S. she has performed with the period instrument groups Musicians of the Old Post Road, Arcadia Players, the Dallas Bach Society, Orchestra of New Spain, and Texas Camerata.
While living in Connecticut, Katrina was a member of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, a core member of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, and an active freelancer around New England. She moved with her partner to Charleston, South Carolina in 2005 when he won the Principal Bass position in the Charleston Symphony, and now is the violist of the group Chamber Music Charleston. Most recently, she won the Assistant Principal Viola position in the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic. She has been Co-Principal Violist of the Dallas Opera Orchestra since 1992, and has just completed her tenth season with Glimmerglass.

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