Abigail Smith

Violist Abigail Smith is an accomplished and devoted musician with a passion for chamber music and community engagement. She is the current viola fellow with Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect for the 2025-27 season. As an orchestral player, she has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra San Antonio, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

She completed her graduate studies at the Yale School of Music, where she studied with Ettore Causa. Previously, she attended the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles where she was a student of Paul Coletti, Yura Lee, Teng Li, and Tatjana Masurenko. Abby has collaborated with and performed alongside renowned artists such as Tai Murray, Stefan Jackiw, Boris Berman, Ani Kavafian, Serena Canin, Scott St. John, the Horszowski Trio, and 
members of the Emerson Quartet.

As an educator, Abby spent the summer of 2023 as a teaching artist at the Morse Summer Music Academy and has maintained a private studio. Through Ensemble Connect, she is a teaching artist at Dr. Daniel Hale Williams School in New York City. She has participated in the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, The Tanglewood Music Center as an orchestral fellow, the Gstaad Menuhuin Festival Academy, and the Aspen Music Festival, where she received the New Horizons Fellowship. In her free time, Abby enjoys reading, playing challenging video games, and daydreaming about someday owning a cat.

She will serve as Acting Section Viola for the 2026–27 season while Section Violist Brett Deubner is on leave.