Kirstie Smith is a English musician - performer, composer, examiner, director and arranger.
Her choral arrangements are wholly unique and crafted with love and care to delight both singers and audiences alike. A deep understanding of vocalists' needs, combined with her vast performance experience and musical creativity ensures her scores are of the highest professional quality and easily accessible to all.
Kirstie's arrangements of rock and pop classics, folk songs, musical theatre showstoppers, hidden gems and uplifting gospel numbers are performed by choirs, vocal ensembles and performance arts groups in the UK and Internationally, She is regularly commissioned to arrange songs for celebratory events.
Musical Director for Swindon Male Voice Choir, she loves arranging songs for the men and other local choirs. Kirstie directs regular choral concerts and music performances throughout the year, often combining the wonderful male voices with other talented musicians and singers to fundraise for local charities and community projects. She is also the newly appointed Musical Director of Cor Meibion de Cymru's premier English rehearsal group.
Classically trained, Kirstie studied piano, violin, voice and composition at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama under the guidance of Sir Michael Roll, Simon Weinmann and Celia Vajda, graduating with a B.A. Hons degree. Kirstie also holds LTCL and LRSL Diplomas plus her PGCE/PCET. She is Chief Examiner for RSL Rockschool
Piano, Keys, Vocals and RSL Professional Performance Diplomas, plus a classical music specialist and syllabus consultant for RSL Awards. She is currently involved in RSL's forthcoming
NEW Rockschool Piano Syllabus 2025.An experienced music and performance arts educator, Kirstie has taught in a variety of formal and informal settings since 1989, helping to develop and nurture students of all ages and abilities. A professional freelance musician for over 40 years, (gigging in a professional dance-band at 14.) She's performed to a vast array of audiences worldwide in differing musical settings - from classical chamber ensembles, jazz combos, dance bands, theatre and piano accompanist to tribute acts and cover bands, leading her own successful party band for over 20 years.
Kirstie loves listening to a wide variety of musical genres, from classical to jazz, prog rock to 80's synth-pop!