Michael Kent Smith

Michael Kent Smith is a composer who uses guitars along with a variety of folk instruments such as the dulcimer, performing on them and taping the various strands together into vivid compositions that are a blend of classical, folk, Celtic, Spanish and jazz.

Smith has toured Europe, Mexico and Africa and performs regularly around the United States with concerts at such notable venues as the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and the Chicago Cultural Center. On the global front he has performed in the Festival Cervantino in Guanajuato Mexico, the International Festival of World Music in Mexico City and the International Guitar Festival in Zihuatanejo as well as touring with the Tom Sank Festival in Paris, Rome, Mali and Burkina Faso.

As an educator, Smith has over twenty years of experience teaching in private lessons, classrooms, clinics and master classes. He teaches out of his studio in the Western Suburbs of Chicago as well as online.