Mailing address:
PO Box 992
Glastonbury, CT
06033-0992

“Robert Edward Smith has a sense of melody in about any style you can name. This irresistible music can begin to fill the need in liturgical churches everywhere. It is always musical, even at its most utilitarian moments.”

– The American Organist

Biography

Robert Edward Smith has written music for vocal and instrumental ensembles of all sizes ranging from unaccompanied viola to symphony orchestra. He has been Composer in Residence at Trinity College Chapel since 1979 and taught harpsichord and continuo realization at the Hartt School, University of Hartford from 1992 to the present. In 2002-2003 he served as Composer in Residence, St. John’s Memorial Chapel at Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Recent works include Sonata III for Viola and Harpsichord, a concert overture Diana, Queen and Huntress for symphony orchestra, and a Quintet for winds. Mr. Smith is currently working on A Place of Beauty, an opera based on the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, commissioned jointly by Intermezzo New England Chamber Opera and The Chamber Orchestra of Boston. The performances are planned for the spring of 2011.

Also a distinguished harpsichordist, he is the first person since the eighteenth century to perform in public the complete harpsichord literature of François Couperin. His recording J, S. Bach: Harpsichord Music in the Grand Manner (Wildboar Recordings) was named as one of the best recordings of the year by the American Record Guide in 1996.

Mr. Smith has been Director of the Trinity College Summer Chamber Music Series since 1998.