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First name: Linda Catlin
Last name: Smith
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Category: Quintet
Nationality: American
Opus name: Wie schön ist es zu leben (2014) für (Jazz-)Klavier und Streichquartet
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Peculiarities: http://db.musicaustria.at/node/182823
Information: (composer website: http://www.catlinsmith.com/) Linda Catlin Smith composes contemporary classical music. She grew up in New York City and lives in Toronto. Teachers include Allen Shawn in NY, and Rudolf Komorous, Martin Bartlett, John Celona, Michael Longton and Jo Kondo at the University of Victoria in British Columbia; she also attended lectures of Morton Feldman, by invitation, in Buffalo, NY. Linda studied piano with Nurit Tilles and Gilbert Kalish at SUNY/Stony Brook, and with Kathleen Solose in Victoria, where she also studied harpsichord with Erich Schwandt. She moved to Toronto in 1981, where she produced a series of concerts at Mercer Union Gallery. She was Artistic Director of Arraymusic, one of Toronto's major contemporary music ensembles in Toronto, from 1988 - 1993. She is a member of the performance collective, URGE. She has given lectures at many universities in Canada, and has taught composition privately and at Wilfrid Laurier University. Outside of teaching, her time is devoted to writing music.