Dallas Smith

Born in Columbus, Georgia, Dallas Smith began his musical studies in the 6th grade on a song flute, and he studied clarinet with George Cardino through high school.

A scholarship student at Florida State University, Smith studied with Harry Schmidt until he took a year abroad to study languages in Germany. Once there, he remained abroad, spending one year in Germany and subsequent years in Sweden and Afghanistan.

During these years, three critical musical milestones occurred for Smith: he began playing the flute, moved over to the jazz world, and began his love affair with East Indian Classical music on the Bansuri, the bamboo flute.

Upon returning to the U.S. after more than three years abroad, Smith moved to San Rafael, CA, to study with Indian Music masters Ali Akbar Khan and G.S. Sachdev, and jazz saxophonist Pee Wee Ellis.

Smith has performed in the U.S., Europe, and India, moving between the inspired and fluid world of meditation, the complex and exciting rhythms of Indian fusion, the complex world of jazz, and his own compositions, which blend all of them.

Smith is also a pioneer in the performance and development of the electronic wind synthesizer. In 1984, he recorded his first solo album, “Stellar Voyage,” and met Susan Mazer, with whom he collaborated on her first album, “The Fire in the Rose.”

Smith his performed with Ahmad Jamal, Steven Halpern, Zakir Hussein, and other musical greats that cover the landscape of contemporary instrumental music.