Having performed with renowned ensembles throughout the United States and abroad, violinist Emily Daggett Smith is an active soloist, chamber musician, and educator, dedicated to furthering the profound connective power of classical music in the 21st century.
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A violinist praised as playing “gorgeously” and with “gracefulness and easy rapport” (The Boston Globe), violinist Emily Daggett Smith performs regularly as soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. Her performances have taken her across the United States, Europe, South America and Asia, and she has appeared on many of the world’s greatest stages including Carnegie Hall, Caramoor, The Kennedy Center, Ravinia, and Tanglewood.
Dr. Smith was recently named the new first violinist of the Vega String Quartet, in residence at Emory University, and will begin her position in January, 2022. Other recent highlights include performances of Bach’s Violin Concerto in E major with Lionel Party for the Lenape Baroque-Fest, Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with the National Music Festival Orchestra, and a series of solo violin recitals at the University at Albany’s Art Museum, which includes two new commissions by composers Andrea Casarrubios and Gabrielle Herbst. Her critically acclaimed performance as part of the Beethoven For One series of the complete Beethoven String Quartets in New York City in November, 2020, was hailed by the New Yorker: “I’ve heard Beethoven performed in large and famous concert halls by some of the great quartets of the era (including the Juilliard, the Emerson, and the Takács); none came close to delivering the jagged immediacy and breathtaking intimacy of Saturday afternoon’s quartet … The greatness of these not-yet-famous musicians was revealed and exalted in closeup … For me, “Beethoven for One” stands as an ideal and a corrective to the usual run of classical concerts, even after they’re able to resume” (Richard Brody, The New Yorker).
As a soloist, Dr. Smith made her New York concerto debut at the age of 21 in Alice Tully Hall, playing the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Juilliard Orchestra and conductor Emmanuel Villaume. Since then she has performed concerti with many orchestras including Iris Orchestra, Festival Mozaic Orchestra, New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Classical Players. She has performed solo recitals across the country at venues including the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, Music in the Loft in Chicago, and Washington Performing Arts’ “Music in the Country”. As a concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra she worked with renowned conductors including Michael Tilson-Thomas and Leonard Slatkin, and has appeared as guest concertmaster of orchestras including Iris Orchestra, The Orlando Philharmonic, and The Knights.
Emily is thrilled to be joining the Vega String Quartet, in residence at Emory University, as the new first violinist. She begins her position in January, 2022.
Vega website: www.vegaquartet.com
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Mendelssohn Concerto with the National Festival Orchestra and Michael Koehler, conductor
https://nationalmusic.us/product/concert-ticket-06-11-2022-festival-symphony-orchestra/
Bach Concerto for Two Violins with Adele Anthony and The Knights at the Skaneateles Festival
https://theknightsnyc.com/performances-all/2022/8/11/the-knights-at-skaneateles-festival
Manchester Music Festival Performances: Borodin String Quartet No. 2 and Brahms Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 with Adam Neiman, piano
https://www.mmfvt.org/concerts
Highlands Cashiers Chamber Music Festival: Handel Sonata
Handel Violin Sonata in D Major and Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia with William Ransom, piano and Zuill Bailey, cello
Beethoven and Bluegrass with Vega Quartet and Mark and Maggie O’Connor
http://www.h-cmusicfestival.org/
La Jolla Music Society’s Summerfest with members of The Knights
Performance of Kurt Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins with Anthony Roth Costanzo and Cecile McLorin Salvant
Chamber arrangement of Holst’s The Planets with Dance Heginbotham
https://theknightsnyc.com/performances-all/2022/8/18/la-jolla-music-societys-summerfest
