Ursula Smith

An established international chamber musician, Ursula Smith has collaborated with musicians including Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Steven Isserlis, Heinz Holliger, Marieke Blankestijn and Malcolm Martineau. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Yale University where she gained a Masters Degree and her teachers have included Ralph Kirshbaum and Aldo Parisot, and at Prussia Cove, György Kurtág and András Schiff. She was a member of the Zehetmair Quartet from 2006 to 2012 and played in many of the world’s most prestigious venues, including the Berlin Philharmonie, Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw, Wigmore Hall and Carnegie Hall. Her CD of Britten’s complete Cello Suites and two new commissions from Sally Beamish and Jacob Anderskov will be released December 2024.