Stephen Michael Smith is Music Director of the Danbury Community Orchestra, and the Founding Music Director of the Orchestra at Shelter Rock. His guest conducting credits include the Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra (Poland), St. Petersburg Camerata (Russia), Karlovy Vary Philharmonic (Czech Republic), Danbury Symphony Orchestra, New Britain Symphony, St. Luke's Orchestra (San Francisco), Riverside Choral Society, Schola Cantorum of Harvard University, and Coro di Camera (Boston). He has performed in France, Italy, Portugal, Greece, and the former Yugoslavia.

Mr. Smith was chosen twice to participate in the International Northern Baltic Festival at the historic Catherine the Great Theater of the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. He also currently serves as Music Director for the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock in Manhasset, NY where he conducts a semi-professional choir, professional chamber orchestra, and directs a professional concert series.

During his tenures as Music Director/Conductor of the Shrewsbury Chorale of New Jersey and the Dalton Alumni Chorale of New York City, Mr. Smith prepared both institutions for their Carnegie Hall debuts (Verdi's Requiem and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9) with New York Grand Opera.