Discography

Wilhemina Smith, cello

Wilhelmina Smith is an artist of intense commitment, poetic insight and dazzling versatility. She is a cellist whose artistic mission embraces a conversation through music, one that enthusiastically encompasses the music of the present placed within the context of a living past. As a soloist and recitalist as well as a collaborative musician and festival director, Mina has consistently advocated for composers with whom she has developed vital relationships, to have their music creatively positioned within an intellectually engaging context and performed with the utmost passion and technical assurance.

 

Ms. Smith was awarded a 2015–2016 McKnight Artist Fellowship for Performing Musicians, one of the oldest and largest of its kind in the United States. She made her solo debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra while a student at the Curtis Institute of Music and in 1997 was a prizewinner in the Leonard Rose International Cello Competition. She has been soloist with orchestras nationally and internationally including the Orquesta Millenium of Guatemala and the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia and has performed recitals across the US and Japan.

 

She has been a guest artist with the Philadelphia and Boston Chamber Music Societies, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and is a founding member of Music from Copland House. She has performed regularly in festivals such as the Marlboro Music Festival and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. In 2005, she formed the Variation String Trio with violinist Jennifer Koh and violist Hsin-Yun Huang, a group that has performed across the US and Europe, and in 2012 formed a piano trio with pianist Lydia Artymiw and violinist Erin Keefe. She is founder and Artistic Director of Salt Bay Chamberfest, on thecoast of Maine, a festival that has been home to performers and composers of international renown for over two decades.

 

Ms. Smith’s solo CD of sonatas by Britten and Schnittke with pianist Thomas Sauer was released in 2006. Her recordings of chamber music include the complete chamber works of Aaron Copland, and works by Sebastian Currier, Osvaldo Golijov, Pierre Jalbert, Jennifer Higdon, Aaron Jay Kernis, Tamar Muskal, John Musto, Kaija Saariaho, and Michael Torke .


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Discography



Kaija Saariaho

70 Years

(Digital album)


Various

ODE 1407-2



Released 01/2023

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Per Nørgård

Paul Ruders

Works for Solo Cello


Wilhemina Smith, cello

ODE 1381-2



Released 01/2021

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Esa-Pekka Salonen

Kaija Saariaho

Works for Solo Cello


Wilhelmina Smith, cello

ODE 1294-2



Released 03/2019

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