Rachael Smith

Biography

​​Rachael Smith (b. 1996) is a composer, librettist, and violist. She has written for a wide variety of groups and performers such as the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Lunch Bachs Project, Conrad Tao, Dana Jessen, A/tonal, SHUFFLE, and the SU​NY Fredonia Department of Theatre and Dance.  She has also been commissioned by the Metropolis Ensemble as a part of the Biophony Project at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, the Fredonia College Symphony as a part of their COVID Zoomworks project and was the recipient of the 2020 Dr. T.Y. Huang and Mrs. Mary Huang Commission Competition. 

In addition to their work as a composer, Rachael is also a playwright and librettist, with their text being performed at SUNY Fredonia, the Peabody Conservatory Opera Workshop, the Bowling Green State University MicroOp​​​era Festival, and the NOW Festival at the Conservatory of Music at Baldwin Wallace.

Rachael received her BM in Music Composition at SUNY Fredonia where she studied with Andrew Martin Smith and Rob Deemer and received her MM in Music Composition at t​​​he University of Louisville where she studied with Steve Rouse and Krzysztof Wolek.  Currently, she is pursuing her DMA at the Peabody Conservatory with Du Yun while teaching music theory at the University of Delaware.​​