Lost Coast, a concerto for cello and orchestra, written for her longtime collaborator Gabriel Cabezas, received its world premiere in May 2023 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. This work joins her organ concerto, Breathing Forests, written for James McVinnie and premiered by the LA Phil led by Esa-Pekka Salonen. Current projects include Keep Going, a large-scale work for the Kronos Quartet, commissioned in celebration of its 50th anniversary season, and Aquatic Ecology, an album-length work for yMusic featuring underwater field recordings.

Her first full-length album, titled Lost Coast, was recorded with Cabezas and producer Nadia Sirota at Greenhouse Studios in Iceland and was named one of NPR Music’s 26 Favorite Albums of 2021 and a “Classical Album to Hear Right Now” by The New York Times. Cabezas and Smith, as a cello-violin-voice-electronics duo, have performed together around the world, including in Reykjavík, New York City, and Paris.

Smith grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area playing and writing music, hiking, backpacking, and volunteering on a songbird research project.