Svetlana Smolina has performed with leading orchestras and given recitals throughout the world, appearing with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, the Mariinsky Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de France, and the Rotterdam Philharmonic. Her performances have taken her to the Salzburg Festival, Hollywood Bowl, Ravinia Rising Stars, White Nights Festival, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Ruhr Klavier Festival, Royal Opera House in London, Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and Rome’s Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

In 2026, Smolina was invited to join the Recording Academy as a GRAMMY Voting Member. Her discography includes the Universal Music solo album Romantic Journey; Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra under Derek Gleeson; the Warner Music projects Rachmaninoff En Ritmo and Funky Sonatas; Chopin’s complete 24 Preludes and a Nocturne for the Chopin Project; a live Scriabin recording with Christopher O’Riley for Pentatone; and Britten’s Young Apollo, recorded at Walt Disney Concert Hall with Eduard Schmieder and the iPalpiti Orchestra. Her recording of Stravinsky’s Les Noces with Valery Gergiev received an International Classical Music Award. Her performances have been broadcast by NPR, WQXR, BBC, PBS, RAI, and Kultura TV. A sought-after chamber musician, Smolina has collaborated with Vadim Repin, Ida Haendel, Narek Hakhnazaryan, Kian Soltani, Alexander Knyazev, Enrico Dindo, Lee-Chin Siow, Pavel Šporcl, Charlie Siem, Roberto Cani, and L. Subramaniam. Her partnership with Repin has taken them to Bogotá’s Teatro Colón, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Koerner Hall in Toronto, Salle Garnier in Monte Carlo, and the Trans-Siberian Art Festival in Novosibirsk, as well as stages in Washington, D.C., London, and New York.

International highlights include a tour of China with the Dublin Philharmonic, appearances in Buenos Aires in the Best Pianists of the 21st Century series, and performances at Classical Tahoe, the Ushuaia Festival, and the Cremona International Summer Festival. She has also performed with the Shanghai Philharmonic and Harbin Symphony Orchestra under Muhai Tang and appeared with Repin at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Shanghai Concert Hall, and Shenzhen’s Belt & Road International Music Festival. A frequent guest of the iPalpiti Festival of International Laureates, she made her solo debut with its orchestra at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Britten’s Young Apollo.

Her 2026 season included Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major with the South Florida Symphony Orchestra in Fort Lauderdale, Miami, and Key West, followed by a recital tour of Argentina and performances in Santiago, Chile. Following that tour, she appeared on the cover of Argentina’s Música Clásica magazine.

European engagements included a concert benefiting UNICEF Austria with violinist Yury Revich at Vienna’s Palais Schönborn-Batthyány, an appearance at Steinway & Sons Vienna, and Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F with Bulgaria’s Vratsa Symphony Orchestra. In September 2026, she debuted with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional del Ecuador in Quito, performing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Her international season also includes a recital at Teatro Municipal de Lima, presented by TQ Producciones, and her Paris recital debut for Blüthner at Salle Cortot in June 2027. A Grand Prix winner of Italy’s Città di Senigallia International Piano Competition, the Murray Dranoff Two Piano Competition, and other international competitions, Smolina has directed the Piano Program at the Philadelphia International Music Festival since 2011. She is a member of the piano faculty at Irvine Valley College, where she teaches Applied Piano (MUS 51). She previously taught at the Kaufman Music Center in New York City and held artist-in-residence appointments at West Chester University and Temple University in Philadelphia.