School of Music Faculty

Marilyn Smart

Part-Time Faculty, Voice

Marilyn Smart's musical career has been both active and diverse. She has worked with such luminaries as Robert Shaw, Seiji Ozawa, and Dave Brubeck, and has sung in unique venues in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Smart’s singing has delighted audiences not only in public and university concert halls, but also in rural American schools, special cultural outreach venues in Japan, (Kyoto City Concert Hall) and even Eskimo villages in northern Alaska.  

 Awarded a special citation by the Ford Foundation's Contemporary Music Project for her performances championing contemporary American composers, Marilyn Smart studied with Margaret Harshaw Indiana University School of Music), Josef Metternich (Cologne, Germany), and Phyllis Curtin (Yale University). 

Smart has taught at the University of Wyoming, University of Alaska, Kobe College, and Kyoto City University of Arts, both in Japan. Recently she attended the International Congress of Voice Teachers in Stockholm, Sweden. 

Since joining the faculty of UNF, Smart has performed as soloist with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, for the Friday Musicale, the St. Cecelia Society, and other local organizations. Currently at the University of North Florida, she teaches Applied Voice as well as courses in French, Italian, English and German Diction for singers. 

Marilyn Smart has recorded for Capstone Records and Albany Records.  

Contact: (904) 620-2961 | m.smart.61857@unf.edu