With a career spanning close to four decades, Juliet White-Smith has performed as a solo, chamber, and orchestral musician throughout the Americas and in Europe, Asia, and Africa. She was a featured soloist with the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra and recitalist/presenter for conferences and congresses of the AVS and IVS in Montreal, South Africa, Thailand, Brazil and Oberlin.
White-Smith’s views on pedagogy, talent, and effective practice have been featured in articles in The Strad, Strings, Journal of the American Viola Society, and American String Teacher. She has presented master classes at major music schools including the Eastman and Shepherd Schools of Music and Mahidol College of Music (Thailand). She has been an invited presenter and master class clinician for the American String Teachers Association and the IVS Congress in Stellenbosch, South Africa. She is active as an adjudicator for prominent career-advancing competitions including William Primrose International Viola Competition and Yellow Spring Chamber Music Competition. Her students have won positions in National Repertory Orchestra, Chicago Civic Orchestra, and have successful careers as professional orchestra musicians and in academia.
An advocate for all things viola, White-Smith served as President of the American Viola Society (2008-2011) and was the Founding President of the Rocky Mountain Viola Society. She has appeared in interviews in the Boston Globe and on WBUR Boston for her efforts facilitating the publication of viola works of Ulysses Kay. Her 2009 album Fashionably Late: Juliet White-Smith Debuts! features the premiere recording of Pulitzer Prize winner George Walker’s Viola Sonata (Centaur).
White-Smith is Professor of Viola at The Ohio State University and joined the faculty at the Cremona International Music Academy and Festival in 2025. Her passion for efficient movement led to her work as a Licensed Body Mapping Educator and she is a certified yoga instructor (RYT 200 hours).