Joanna Smulakowski

Joanna Smulakowski is a highly sought-after teacher and performer in the New York City area. She has a bachelor’s and a master’s of music in viola performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music and completed Suzuki teacher training with Kimberley Meier-Sims. In December 2012, she will graduate with a master’s in music education from Hunter College. Joanna performs frequently as a violist with chamber and orchestral groups such as the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, Dicapo Opera, Westchester Symphony Orchestra, the Radio City Music Spectacular Orchestra, and the Atlantic Classical Orchestra. She has also collaborated with artists such as Barry Manilow and Kanye West. Her teachers include Stanley Konopka and Lynne Ramsey of the Cleveland Orchestra and pedagogue Jeffrey Irvine. A devoted teacher, she is on the faculty of Turtle Bay Music School, the Town School, and New England Music Camp. She serves as Suzuki faculty advisor at Turtle Bay Music School.