Ellen Dinwiddie Smith has been a member of the Minnesota Orchestra since 1993 and currently serves as third horn. Smith is Adjunct Professor of Horn at the University of Minnesota and has served as Young-Artist-Program faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music Summerfest since 2015. Smith is a 1987 graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Myron Bloom and was a member of the Curtis Wind Quintet, a top prize winner in the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. Prior to studies at Curtis, Smith attended the Juilliard School and the University of Texas at Austin. Her teachers include Myron Bloom, Wayne Barrington, Greg Hustis and Michael Hatfield. While still a student at Curtis, she was named third horn of the Charleston (South Carolina) Symphony Orchestra and later joined the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra as co-principal horn. She has performed at the Spoleto USA, Waterloo, Chautauqua, Colorado Philharmonic, National Repertory Orchestra and Aspen summer music festivals.
Show timings:
(00:00)  Introduction
(01:11)  Band in Texas
(12:00)  University of Texas, Julliard and Curtis
(17:30)  Early Career
(21:16)  Minnesota Orchestra
(27:53)  Teaching
(31:58)  Closing
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Jerry Luckhardt   https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/luckh001
Bradley Mariska  https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradley-mariska-63ba2855
Ellen Dinwiddie Smith
https://minnesotaorchestra.org/about/who-we-are/orchestra-musicians/331-horn/730-ellen-dinwiddie-smith
Feature for Minnesota Orchestra:
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Soloist with Dale Warland Singers:
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Facebook Website (Band in Minnesota)
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