Earle Chester Smith (1883–1951) was an American pianist and pedagogue whose teaching career spanned 50 years, primarily in Atlanta, Georgia.
[4] Earle Chester Smith studied piano in Chicago with Rudolph Ganz, Felix Borowski, and Dr. Louis Falk.
[5] In 1911 he traveled to Germany to study music with Robert Teichmüller in Leipzig, and Maurice Aronson and Leopold Godowsky in Berlin.
He also served as piano department chair for the School of Music at the University of Miami from 1926 to 1928 where Bertha Foster was dean.
Earle Chester Smith rejoined the piano faculty of the Atlanta Conservatory of Music in June 1928.