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Caeli Smith

Caeli Smith has appeared as a guest soloist with numerous orchestras, including the Philadelphia Classical Symphony, the Ambler Symphony, the Olney Symphony, the Bucks County Symphony, the Old York Road Symphony, and the Ocean City Pops. She has been a finalist in the Philadelphia Orchestra's Greenfield Competition and an Honorable Mention winner in the Davidson Fellowship competition.

Caeli studies with Catherine Cho in New York, where she has served as concertmaster of the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra. She also studies with Joey Corpus, an independent teacher in Manhattan. This summer she will study with James Buswell at the Heifetz International Music Festival in New Hampshire.

She holds an Advanced Study Scholarship at Settlement Music School,where for three years prior she was a member of the Auger Contemporary Music Ensemble, a piano quartet devoted to new music. Currently, she plays in the Snitzer Advanced Study Quartet, coached by Sidney Curtiss; the Ambrosia String Quartet, coached by Jean Louise Shook; and a piano quartet coached by Masao Kawasaki at the Juilliard School.

She has performed in masterclasses by members of the Emerson, Juilliard, Miro, Orion, and Ying Quartets, and by Charles Castleman, Ivan Chan, Judith Ingolfson, David Kim, Ida Levin, Robert McDuffie, Diane Monroe, Joel Smirnoff, and others.

Caeli has attended Kinhaven Music School (Vermont), Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music (New Hampshire), ENCORE School for Strings (Cleveland), and Bowdoin International Music Festival (Maine). In the summer of 2008 she attended Charles Castleman's Quartet Program in Fredonia, New York and the Robert McDuffie Labor Day Festival for Strings in Georgia.

She has appeared twice as a soloist on From The Top, National Public Radio's syndicated program, where she is also featured as the show's Roving Reporter. On the show she has interviewed many young musicians and their mentors, including Almita Vamos and John Corigliano, and played in a small ensemble with Mark O'Connor.

Caeli has performed several times on Andrea Clearfield's Salon series, and has a starring role as a street musician in Robert Downey, Sr.'s 2005 documentary Rittenhouse Square.

She appears as a soloist on PBS's series From The Top: Live from Carnegie Hall as a soloist and with her string quartet Seraphina, and on From The Top's radio show, taped at Southern Theater in Columbus. In November 2008 her quartet from Settlement Music School will perform at the Smithsonian Institute and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

Her essays about music and performing have been published in The Philadelphia Inquirer and Teen Strings and Strings magazine. For two summers, Caeli was the journalism intern at Violinist.com. She is also a contributing editor of The Roving Report, From The Top's monthly electronic newsletter. She has been invited by YouTube to be an official vlogger at the first YouTube Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in April, 2009.

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