Dr. Carol Smith
Contact Information
Dr. Carol Smith
Orchestra
Director of Orchestral Studies
Phone: (936)294-1358
Office: Music 325
E-mail: csmith@shsu.edu
Profile of Dr. Carol Smith
Carol Smith is in her 22nd year as Professor of Music, Director of Orchestral Studies and Conductor of the SHSU Symphony Orchestra. She was appointed to a position as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at SHSU in January 1995, where she served until July 1999. In addition to her duties in orchestral studies, she is the Artistic Director of the Huntsville Youth Orchestra, Director of the SHSU Orchestra Camps, and was Musical Advisor of the International Conductors' Institute for 10 years.
Guest conducting appearances in 5 European countries and 19 states throughout the USA have included engagements with the orchestra from the Vienna Academy of Music at the International Festival of Music in Feldkirch, Austria as well as festivals in Germany and Switzerland. Dr. Smith has conducted festivals from North Dakota to Oklahoma to Kentucky; civic and youth orchestras such as the Houston Youth Symphony, Monroe Symphony, Houston Symphony North, and the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra; numerous regional orchestras and all-state organizations; musical theatre orchestras throughout Texas, as well as SHSU opera and musical theatre performances. She has worked extensively as an adjudicator, clinician, and conductor; she is a published editor and arranger of music.
Dr. Smith received her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University and her bachelor and master degrees from Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, where she served as graduate assistant to B. R. Henson. Additional limited studies have included work with Julius Herford, Sir George Solti, Otto-Werner Mueller, Edvard Melkus, James Dixon, Elizabeth Green, Samuel Applebaum, Robert Shaw, and A. Clyde Roller. Prior to her present position, Dr. Smith held teaching positions at Southwest Texas State University and in the public schools at both McAllen and Fort Worth. She was also Music Consultant for the Texas Education Agency. Recently, Dr. Smith was awarded a fellowship to Harvard University, where she studied the symphonies of Beethoven. Also, she has worked as an intern with President Matina Horner, Radcliffe College, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In recent summers, Dr. Smith has worked with Maestro Cornelius Eberhardt at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. Presently, she is serving as the national secretary of the American String Teachers Association with the National String Orchestra Association after six years in the various roles of president of the American String Teachers Association, Texas Chapter. Dr. Smith works as a conductor and clinician sponsored by United Musical Instruments and Scherl-Roth String Instruments. Additionally, she was named the 2001 recipient of the Sam Houston State University Faculty Service Achievement Award and a recipient of the 2001 College of Arts and Sciences Special Recognition Award.