Dr. Jeremy Smith is a composer, theorist, educator, and entrepreneur. His music has been widely performed by ensembles including the International Contemporary Ensemble, the Symphony Orchestra of Northern Virginia, the Perimeter Flute Quartet, Nashville in Harmony, the Huntsville Youth Orchestra, and the University of Alabama Concert Band. His works have been featured at a variety of conferences and festivals, such as SoundNOW, the International Duo Symposium, the Southeast Regional Tuba and Euphonium Conference, and the Tennessee Music Educators Association Conference. Many of his band compositions are published by RWS Music Company and distributed by Alfred Music. In 2025, two of his works were named to the JW Pepper Editor’s Choice list.

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Beyond the concert stage, Dr. Smith is a sought-after collaborator across genres. He has worked with numerous pageantry groups, including Music City Drum and Bugle Corps, Chattanooga Independent Percussion Ensemble, Southwind Drum and Bugle Corps, Clarksville Audio Theatre, Music City Winds, and the University of Alabama’s Million Dollar Band. His musical contributions can also be heard in Unjustifiable, a podcast by Reckon Radio that won the National Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Podcast and was narrated by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Archibald.

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Dr. Smith is the co-owner of SouthCoast Music & Design, a company specializing in custom productions for marching band, indoor percussion, and indoor winds. Through SouthCoast, he has designed, arranged, and consulted on hundreds of unique shows across more than 17 states. Many of these productions have achieved notable competitive success, including multiple state and regional championships, WGI and BOA regional titles, and appearances in the semi-finals at the Bands of America Grand Nationals. He currently serves as the Music Designer and Percussion Arranger for Memphis Blues Drum and Bugle Corps, based in Memphis, Tennessee.

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He is also a frequent participant in artist residencies and composition workshops. At the Azule Artist Residency in Hot Springs, NC he completed the score for his first ballet, The Singularity (2016), the musical play David (2018), and most recently Creek Don’t Rise (2024), a work for orchestra commissioned by the Symphony Orchestra of Northern Virginia. In 2022, he attended the Walden School Creative Artist Retreat in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire where his piece Be That As It May for Clarinet and Piano was premiered. In August 2025, he will attend the Orein Artist Residency, where he has been selected to spend a week living and working in isolation at Mount Saviour Monastery in Pine City, New York, developing the libretto and score for his forthcoming opera, Faith.

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Dr. Smith holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from the University of Alabama and a Master’s degree in Composition and Music Theory from Middle Tennessee State University. Based in Florence, Alabama, he serves as Executive Director of the Shoals Symphony at the University of North Alabama, where he is also an adjunct member of the music faculty.