Nora Smith

Nora Smith is a freelance classical trumpeter in the South Bay area. A native of Utah, she earned a Bachelor of Music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 2003. In 2006, she received a Master of Music at the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music, and in 2007, she completed the first year of a Doctorate of Arts Music degree at the University of Northern Colorado. Nora held the doctoral trumpet assistantship, teaching applied trumpet and was principal trumpet of the UNC orchestra.

Nora was a winner of the Rocky Mountain Concerto Competition in October of 2006, and performed the Sachse Concertino for Trumpet with the UNC Wind Ensemble in April of 2007. She was soloist with the San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra on Handel's Messiah in Davie's Symphony Hall in 2001 and 2002.

Additional music study includes attendance at the "FAME" Festival in Lawrenceville, NJ, where she studied and played in master classes for Vincent Penzarella, Mondre Moffett, and Delfeayo Marsalis. In addition, Nora participated in the Summer Brass Institute in Menlo Park with Bud Herseth during the summer of 2006. She was invited back as the director's assistant where she coordinated scheduling for all the rehearsals and master classes, coached and conducted small chamber groups, taught a breathing gym class, and managed concerts and master classes.

Nora has studied extensively and collaborated with trumpeters Dr. David Champouillon, Edward Gornik, Mario Guarneri, Dave Burkhart, Al Hood, Dr. Rob Murray, Laurie McGaw, Jeff Biancalana, and Keith Johnson.

A former member of the Utah Youth Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, she toured Europe with the SFSYO in 2001. She has also played with the Colorado Ballet in Denver, the Denver Brass, Berkley Symphony Orchestra, Redwood Symphony, the Cantare Con Vivo Chorale Orchestra, San Jose Wind Symphony, and Symphony Silicon Valley.