Rebecca Smithorn

Rebecca Smithorn, (6-9) Music Teacher

Rebecca Smithorn

Rebecca Smithorn (6-9) Music Teacher

With 15 years of teaching experience, Rebecca has had the joy of teaching music to hundreds of students of all ages. She has taught at the Peaslee Neighborhood Center, which provides low-cost lessons for students in underserved communities, A first-generation college graduate, Rebecca is passionate about making education accessible to all students, and she has served as a teaching artist in musicianship with MyCincinnati and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s OrchKids, two El-Sistema-inspired music education programs. She also serves as the Education Conductor of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra and the Artistic Director of Ensemble 4-33, a musical group dedicated to experimental and avant-garde works.

Rebecca recently created The Listening Lab, an orchestral concert series that teaches young audiences listening skills based in mindfulness techniques and research in music cognition. Described as “interesting and ingenious,” that program received full support from the Peabody Conseratory Dean’s Office and was later selected for the Johns Hopkins Social Innovation Cohort.

Rebecca has been selected as a finalist for fellowships with the New World Symphony, the Chautauqua Institute, and the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, and she was nominated for the Conductor’s Guild Thelma A. Robinson Award for promising young conductors. As a pianist, she has given solo, chamber, and lecture performances at the Steinway Recital Hall of St. Louis, the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, the Diastole Scholars Center, the Brevard Music Festival, and the Eastman School of Music, among others.