About

Steven Herbert Smith, pianist and professor emeritus of piano at Penn State, has performed throughout the world, and has recorded solo recitals for the French, German and Spanish national radios, Radio 4 Hong Kong, and America’s PBS Television. His recent projects include a comprehensive, acclaimed series of Beethoven recitals and compact discs called Piano Masterworks of Beethoven including all the 32 Sonatas and many other beloved works of the Beethoven repertoire. Other recent performances include Beethoven presentations and master classes in Beijing and Zhengzhou, China. He performed a lecture-recital at the London International Piano Symposium, 2015. Other international presentations included Hong Kong’s Academy of Performing Arts and Glasgow’s Royal Scottish Academy; recitals and master classes in Australia and New Zealand included the University of Melbourne and Auckland University. His critically-acclaimed recitals included Piano Entente, a series of recent-music programs presented in New York and London. Other workshops included lecture- recitals on the topics of technical and musical teachings of Tobias Matthay. He was President of the American Matthay Association for Piano, 2022-24. He was the winner of teaching awards from the Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association and from Penn State’s College of Arts and Architecture. 
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Steven Herbert Smith’s degrees include the DMA and M.Mus. from the Eastman School of Music, as well as the Artist’s Diploma from the Mozarteum of Salzburg, Austria. His artist teachers included Cécile Genhart and Kurt Neumüller. More recently he worked in Vienna with the celebrated pianist Paul Badura-Skoda regarding aspects of the Beethoven repertoire. He is married to the soprano singer Theresa Vincent Smith, and they have three children: Alicia, Steven Andrew, and Louisa.