Performances with: SFJazz, San Francisco Symphony, The Orchestra Now (current member) 

Berlin Opera Academy, 2022

Saluzzo Opera Academy, 2021

Eastern Music Festival, 2019

Marrowstone Music Festival, 2018

Born and raised in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, Quinton Bodnár Smith first began playing the oboe in the public school system of the Lewisville Independent School District, graduating from Edward S. Marcus High School in 2016. In college Bodnár Smith went on to study Oboe Performance with Dr. Andrew Parker at the University of Texas at Austin, in the Butler School of Music. Most notable of his undergraduate studies was performing in the UT Bach Cantata Project and studying abroad for a summer in Vienna, Austria. After graduating in the BSOM Class of 2020, Bodnár Smith would continue on to his graduate studies at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music as a student of Russ de Luna, Solo English Horn of the San Francisco Symphony. Living and learning in the Bay Area afforded Bodnár Smith many opportunities such as playing in Ambrose Akinmusire’s 2022 SFJazz set and playing with the San Francisco Symphony.
Quinton is currently a member of The Orchestra Now (TŌN), a graduate training orchestra located at Bard College about 90 miles north of NYC. In addition to audition preparation and lessons, TŌN performs regularly in the city, with appearances in venues such as Jazz at Lincoln Center, free concerts at Symphony Space, the Met Museum, and Carnegie Hall. Highlights from his first year in the program include recording the Carnegie Hall cycle, a collection of works by composers displaced by the Holocaust, and getting to play oboe d’amore for the very first time ever for Images by Debussy at a Met Museum presentation on Debussy and Matisse.