Juliet White-Smith is an accomplished violist, an engaging and dynamic teacher, and an expert string pedagogue. With performing and professional teaching careers spanning over three and a half decades, she has performed in solo, chamber, and orchestral settings throughout the United States and in Europe, Asia, and Africa. She has performed as a member of the Texas Chamber Orchestra, with the Houston Grand Opera, Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra, and the Rochester Philharmonic. She is regularly engaged as an invited presenter for music organizations around the country and across the globe including as a featured presenter and master class clinician at the American String Teachers Association annual conference, for the 75th Anniversary Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, and as a recitalist and presenter for conferences of the American Viola Society and at International Viola Congresses. She has served as adjudicator for prominent career-advancing competitions including the William Primrose International Viola Competition and the Yellow Spring Chamber Music Competition.

Her views on pedagogy, talent, and effective practice have been featured in The Strad, Strings Magazine, Journal of the American Viola Society, and American String Teacher. She has appeared in interviews in the Boston Globe and on WBUR Boston. She served as President of the American Viola Society from 2008-2011 and was on the Artist-Faculty at the Brevard Music Festival 2018-23. Her 2009 album Fashionably Late: Juliet White-Smith Debuts! features the premiere recording of Pulitzer Prize winner George Walker’s Viola Sonata (1989) and is available on the Centaur Records label (CRC 2982).

White-Smith is passionate about the health and wellness of musicians. She is a certified yoga instructor (RYT 200) and is also licensure trainee to become a Body Mapping Educator. She also enjoys cycling whether it is on bike paths in Ohio or Colorado or virtually around the globe.

A native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, White-Smith joined the faculty at The Ohio State University School of Music in 2012 having previously held positions at the University of Northern Colorado and Western Michigan University.

White-Smith earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Eastman School of Music and is a graduate of the University of Houston (MM) and Louisiana State University (BM in violin).