Wayne Smith gave his recital debut at the Kennedy Center in 1996 and has appeared as soloist and chamber musician in the United States, Italy, Germany, Romania, Hungary, Austria, Poland, and China.

He is a frequent performer at Bargemusic and has appeared with the Orchestra of Saint Luke’s, the New Jersey Chamber Music Society, the Ritz Chamber Players, the Manhattan Chamber Players the National Chamber Orchestra, the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, and the Princeton Chamber Symphony among other groups, and was a featured soloist on the PBS Series “Musical Encounters”. He has recorded and performed with such artists as Joe, Richard Smallwood, and the Spin Doctors’ Anthony Krizan, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and the Moody Blues. He is currently performing on Broadway in the orchestra for Sweeney Todd.

He has also enjoyed an active teaching career and was on the faculties of Amherst College, the Deerfield Academy, the Williston Northampton School, and Salisbury State University. He did his undergraduate studies at the Eastman School of Music with Steven Doane and his graduate studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst with Astrid Schween.