BIORachael Smith (b. 1996) is an American composer from Brockport, NY. She has worked with a wide variety of groups such as the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Lunch Bachs Project, A/tonal, SHUFFLE, the SUNY Fredonia Department of Theatre and Dance, and the Performing Arts Company at SUNY Fredonia. 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 being a composer, Rachael is also a playwright and lyricist, with her text being performed at SUNY Fredonia, the Bowling Green State University MicroOpera Festival, and the NOW Festival at the Conservatory of Music at Baldwin Wallace.
Rachael received her BM in Music Composition at the SUNY at Fredonia where she studied with Andrew Martin Smith and Rob Deemer, received her MM in Music Composition at the University of Louisville where she studied with Steve Rouse and Krzysztof Wolek, and she received her DMA in Music Composition at the Peabody Conservatory where they studied with Du Yun and Katherine Balch. Currently Rachael teaches music theory and composition at the University of Delaware. |
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