Timothy M. Smith
 Timothy M. Smith is Music Director and Conductor of the Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra. Smith is a seasoned conductor and veteran music educator, most recently serving a twenty-two year tenure as Professor of Music at California State University East Bay, where he was Director of Wind Studies, and taught courses in conducting, music education and music literature, in addition to serving for four years as Music Director/Conductor of the University Orchestra and four years as Chair of the Music Department. Professor Smith currently serves part-time on the faculty at CSU, Sacramento.
In the four seasons under Maestro Smith’s leadership, the CSU East Bay University Symphony Orchestra became a viable and vital performing ensemble in the department. Highlights of these seasons include the formal involvement of string faculty with the orchestra, establishing an orchestral residency for a young professional string quartet, expanding concert programming to include a wide variety of literature for both full and chamber orchestra, prominently featuring faculty as soloists with the orchestra, expanding the orchestra’s exposure to repertoire through regular reading of literature for full orchestra, chamber orchestra, string orchestra and orchestral winds and percussion, and establishing a formal relationship between the University Symphony Orchestra and the University Opera Program.
In addition to his responsibilities at CSUEB, Timothy M. Smith is in great demand as a guest conductor, adjudicator and clinician. He has conducted professional orchestras and wind bands, as well as high school and junior high school honor orchestras and bands throughout the western, northwestern and mid-western states. As an educational conductor Maestro Smith has conducted the Oregon Music Educators Association (OMEA) All-State Orchestra, appeared three times with the California Orchestra Directors Association (CODA) All-State High School Honor Orchestra, twice with the California Music Educators Association (CMEA) Bay Section High School String Orchestra, and conducted nearly regional, county, and district level honor orchestra in California and Nevada.
Professor Smith holds degrees in Horn Performance, Conducting and Music Education, is a former member of the Stockton, Modesto, and Spokane (WA) Symphonies, and was an active freelance horn player in the Bay Area. Involved in music education on several different levels. He was named the California Music Educators Association Bay Section’s “Outstanding Music Educator of 2006.” For several years he was Music Director of the multi-level Youth Orchestra of Southern Alameda County, and conducted the Senior Camp Orchestra at the Hayward-La Honda Music Camp for several years. He will be celebrating 20 years in the Summer of 2007 as a member of the La Sierra Fine Arts Camp teaching staff, and has been guest conductor of both orchestras and bands at the Cazadero Performing Arts Camp several times as well.
Musicians
The Contra costa Chamber Orchestra is fortunate to
have the highest caliber musicians. The players are
music teachers, business professionals, college students,
electricians, mechanics and computer specialists. Nobody
in the orchestra receives remuneration for their services.
The members have truly become a musical family who
love music making.
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