Violinist Callum Smart Appointed to Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University

The British violinist will leave the Royal Northern College of Music to take up the role in Fall 2025

British violinist Callum Smart has been appointed as an Assistant Professor of Violin at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Music, and will first begin teaching during the Fall 2025 semester.

Smart is presently a Professor of Violin at the Royal Northern College of Music, and has held teaching positions at Orford Musique, the Benedetti Foundation, and Music Masters. He has taught at institutions such as the Royal College of Music, the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, and Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.

Smart has appeared as a soloist with orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, and the European Union Chamber Orchestra, among others — and he has worked with conductors such as Vasily Petrenko, John Wilson, and Grant Llewellyn.

As a young violinist, Smart was the winner of the BBC Young Musician strings category, as well as being the top European prizewinner at the Menuhin Competition in 2010.

He studied with Mauricio Fuks at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music and then earned an International Artist Diploma at the Royal Northern College of Music, where his teachers were Ana Chumachenco and Noah Bendix-Balgley.

"After 6 wonderful years teaching at the Royal Northern College of Music, I’m deeply honored to be joining the faculty as Assistant Professor of Violin at Carnegie Mellon University!" Smart said.