Gabriella Smith is a composer whose work comes from a love of play, exploring new sounds on instruments, building compelling musical arcs, and connecting listeners with the natural world in an invitation to find joy in climate action. An “outright sensation” (LA Times), her music "exudes inventiveness with a welcoming personality, rousing energy and torrents of joy” (NY Times).

Lost Coast, a cello concerto written for her longtime collaborator Gabriel Cabezas, received its world premiere in May 2023 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. Her first full-length album, also titled Lost Coast, was recorded with Cabezas at Greenhouse Studios in Iceland, and named one of NPR Music’s “26 Favorite Albums Of 2021 (So Far)” and a “Classical Album to Hear Right Now” by The New York Times. Gabriel and Gabriella, as a cello-violin-voice-electronics duo, have performed together around the world, including in Reykjavik, New York City, and Paris.

Gabriella’s current projects include a large-scale work for Kronos Quartet about climate solutions commissioned in celebration of their 50th anniversary season, an album-length work for yMusic and underwater field recordings, and performances of her organ concerto, Breathing Forests, by James McVinnie and San Francisco Symphony, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, as part of the inaugural California Festival. In December 2023, her work Tumblebird Contrails will be performed on the Nobel Prize Concert by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.

Gabriella grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area playing and writing music, hiking, backpacking, and volunteering on a songbird research project.