“… a performer with an open mind and, more importantly, an open ear.”

Aaron Smith is a freelance musician in the Los Angeles area performing in orchestra, musical, new music group, brass ensemble, and various studio sessions.

In Los Angeles he has been heard in the Hollywood Studio Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, Monday Evening Concert Series, and in motion picture & recording sessions from such as BMG Killer Tracks, Poo-bah Records, and Touchstone Pictures.

For the International Trumpet Guild, Smith has appeared as a guest Solo Artist.  “His exceptional control and mastery of his instrument was on display right from the first note.  The shouts of adulation from the audience… only reaffirmed what this reviewer heard.”
    -Tom Erdmann, reporter (see full article)

Smith has earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts, where he studied with Edward Carroll, Vinny Golia, and John Fumo. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music with tutelage of James Thompson.  At Eastman, he was featured as a "Rising Star”, performed in the Eastman Wind Ensemble at Carnegie Hall, and freelanced in upstate NY.  During the summers, he attended the Lake Placid trumpet seminar and the Music Academy of the West.

During high school, at the Interlochen Arts Academy, Smith studied trumpet with Stanley Friedman, was principal trumpet of the IAA orchestra and served as Assistant Principal Trumpet of the Traverse Symphony Orchestra. At age 16, he was awarded first prize in the Savannah Symphony Concerto Competition and performed as a soloist with the Savannah Symphony Orchestra.