Musician- Andy Smith

Cellist ANDREW SMITH is currently an Associate Professor of Music at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. As a member of the Cerberus Trio, UNLV’s piano trio in residence, he has played many concerts on campus and throughout the Southwest. Prior to his appointment at UNLV He played with the Nicoletti String Quartet for three years at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 1997. He has studied chamber music with such notable musicians as Felix Galimir, Leon Fleischer and Julius Levine, as well as members of the Juilliard, Guarneri, Emerson, Alban Berg, Vermeer, Muir, and American string quartets.

He has also participated in numerous chamber music festivals, among them the Taos School of Music, Kneisel Hall, The Quartet Program, and Bravo! Colorado. For two years he was principal cellist with the West Virginia Symphony, where he was in residence as a member of the Montani String Quartet. He has won several awards and prizes, including first prize in the Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation competition in Santa Barbara, and an Esperia Foundation grant to study with the eminent Hungarian cellist Csaba Oncay at the Liszt Academy in Budapest. Mr. Smith has also been a faculty member of several summer festivals, including the Las Vegas Music Festival, the Hamptons Summer Music School, and the San Diego Chamber Music Workshop. In 1998 and 1999 he participated in the Music at Penns Woods Festival at Penn State University, where he was Principal Cellist of the Festival Orchestra. This summer Dr. Smith will return for the fourth time to Dakota Chamber Music, a week-long chamber music institute devoted to young musicians in Minot, ND, where he teaches and performs with colleagues Jon Rumney and members of the Ying Quartet. He is a founding faculty member of the Adriatic Chamber Music Festival in southern Italy, where he will return this summer for the sixth year. He will also be performing for the third summer at The Festival Internacional de Deiá in Mallorca, Spain.