Faculty

Laurie Smukler

violin

Laurie Smukler earned a B.Music degree at the Juilliard School, where she studied with Ivan Galamian. She is an active soloist and recitalist and has established a reputation as one of the finest chamber musicians in the country. In New York, she appears regularly at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with the Festival Chamber Music Society and the Bard Music Festival, and in the "Collection in Concert" series, which she codirects, at the Pierpont Morgan Library. Dedicated to teaching as well as performing, she is professor of violin and head of the string area at the Conservatory of Music at SUNY Purchase, where she is also artistic director of the "Faculty and Friends" concert series.

Smukler's wide musical interests include contemporary music, and she has premiered works by many composers, including Ned Rorem, Morton Subotnik, Steven Paulus, Shulamit Ran, and Bruce Adolphe. She was a founding member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet, with which she recorded works by Dvorák, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schoenberg, Weber, and Ran. She has also recorded Dvorák's Terzetto and the Kodaly Serenade with Ira Weller and Krista Bennion-Feeney. She teaches and performs at Kneisel Hall Festival in Blue Hill, Maine, and has been an invited guest at many summer festivals, including the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, Bard Music Festival, Mostly Mozart, the Skaneateles Festival, and the Acadia Festival.
Phone: 845-758-7196