The London Symphony Orchestra has announced a new addition to its trumpet section.

Katie Smith makes the move from Scotland where she played with the RNSO as sub-principal trumpet, following in the footsteps of her late father Malcolm Smith, who was the co-principal trumpet at the LSO between 1982 and 1988.

Graduate path

Following undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music respectively, Katie has played with many of the UK's leading orchestras and has taught classes at the GSMD, RAM and Royal College of Music.

She can be heard on many major film and TV soundtracks including the 'Matrix Resurrections', 'Stranger Things' and 'Life on Our Planet', and it the fourth generation of her family to be a member of the orchestra.

Murphy

In saying that she couldn't wait to make her full member debut with the LSO under the baton of conductor Ryan Bancroft on Stravinsky's 'Firebird' and Wagner's 'Tristan and Isolde', she also revealed that her trumpet hero was non other than the late, great Maurice Murphy.

In a short introductory interview for the LSO website, she said: "After I began playing there would be times during rehearsals for children's concerts where Maurice would get me to sit in the section with him.

Looking back, I cannot believe how unbelievably lucky I was to experience the kindness of Maurice first hand."