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Brinton Averil Smith's North American engagements have included numerous
performances in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, the Marlboro Festival,
Aspen Music Festival, and Banff Centre for the arts, and recital appearances
in Dallas, Phoenix, San Diego, Tucson and Los Angeles. Mr. Smith's recording
of the Rozsa Cello Concerto with the New Zealand Symphony was released to
international acclaim including the 1998 Gramophone Awards Issue, which
praised Smith as a "hugely
eloquent, impassioned soloist."
Mr. Smith's broadcast performances include
WNCN in New York, National Public Radio in Germany, Radio South Africa, and
CBS Sunday Morning. He has collaborated with members of the Beau Arts Trio,
and the Guarneri, Emerson, Juilliard, Cleveland and Berg Quartets. In
addition to his post as the principal cellist of the Forth Worth Symphony
Orchestra, Mr. Smith is an Artist-In-Residence at the Texas Christian
University School of Music and previously served as principal cellist of the
San Diego Symphony.
Brinton Averil Smith began his musical studies at age five. At age ten he was
admitted to Arizona State University, where he completed a BA degree in
mathematics. He was a scholarship student of Eleonore Schoenfeld at the
University of Southern California and subsequently studied with Zara Nelsova
at The Juilliard School, where he received the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree. |
