Katie Smith

Trumpet

Member since 2025

Katie Smith is joining the LSO after a very happy and fulfilling year and a half with Scotland’s National Orchestra (RSNO) as their Sub-Principal Trumpet. Katie has enjoyed a busy and diverse freelance career as an orchestral musician on both modern and period instruments. She was originally inspired to pick up the trumpet aged seven in memory of her late father Malcolm Smith (Co-Principal Trumpet of the LSO 1982-88). She is the fourth generation of LSO musicians in her family since her great grandfather joined the orchestra in 1929. Following undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music respectively, Katie has played with many of the UK’s leading orchestras including the Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra and English National Opera and has toured the UK and abroad in Asia, the US and Europe. Katie has taught classes at the GSMD, RAM and Royal College of Music. She can be heard on many major film and TV soundtracks including the Matrix Resurrections, Stranger Things and Life on Our Planet. She is very excited for this new chapter of her career with the LSO.

Listen To

‘I love Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique. I could listen to it everyday and never get bored.’