Smart will join the School of Music as assistant professor of violin from autumn 2025
The Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) School of Music has announced the appointment of Callum Smart as assistant professor of violin. Smart will assume the role for the autumn 2025 semester.
Smart is currently professor of violin at Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, and holds faculty positions at Orford Musique, the Benedetti Foundation, and Music Masters. He has mentored violin students from around the globe and is in demand as a guest at universities including the Royal College of Music and Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.
Smart uses his Instagram following to share violin tutorials with the wider violin-playing community, and recently launched Caidence, an AI practice companion to support violinists in their musical journeys.
Smart earned artist diplomas from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, studying with Mauricio Fuks, and from the Royal Northern College of Music, where he studied with Ana Chumachenco and Noah Bendix-Balgley.
As a soloist, he has appeared with numerous orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and European Union Chamber Orchestra.
He has performed duo and trio recitals at venues including Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin, Auditorium du Louvre, as well as a number of European festivals including the Cheltenham Festival, Dvorak Festival, Menuhin Festival, Mecklenburg Vorpommern and the Malmo International String Festival.
He plays a c.1730-35 violin by Carlo Bergonzi.
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