Linda Catlin Smith
Linda Catlin Smith was born in New York, and lives in Toronto. She began her composition studies in high school in NY, with composer Allen Shawn, and continued her music study at SUNY Stony Brook. In 1977, she travelled to Canada to study composition and theory with composers Rudolf Komorous, Martin Bartlett, John Celona, Michael Longton and Jo Kondo at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. As a performer, she 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 co-presented, with painter Anna-Marie Cobbold, a new music series at Mercer Union Gallery. In 1986, she was invited by Morton Feldman to attend his lectures, as a guest, at SUNY/Buffalo, NY.
Drawn to an ambiguity of harmony and narrative, her work is informed by her deep appreciation of the work of writers and painters, such as Virginia Woolf, Cormac McCarthy, Cy Twombly, Giorgio Morandi, Mark Rothko, Agnes Martin, and Joseph Cornell, among many others. Her works have been commissioned and performed by many soloists and ensembles in Canada, the US and abroad, including: Victoria, Vancouver and Kitchener-Waterloo Symphonies, Tectonics Festival, Huddersfield Festival, Tapestry New Opera Works, Arraymusic, Vancouver New Music, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Evergreen Club Gamelan, Bozzini, Del Sol and Penderecki Quartets, Fibonacci Trio, Duke Trio, Sabat/Clarke Duo, and many soloists including Eve Egoyan, Anton Lukoszevieze, Louis Goldstein, Elinor Frey, Philip Thomas, Heather Roche and others. Her works have been recorded by: Another Timbre, World Edition, Arraymusic, Eve Egoyan, Evergreen Club Gamelan, Barbara Pritchard, Les Coucous Bénévoles, RocKeys duo. Her lecture “Composing Identity: What is a Woman Composer?” is published in Descant Magazine (#107) and Musicworks (#80).
Many of her compositions were supported by commissions through the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council and the Laidlaw Foundation. In addition, she was awarded several individual artist grants from the Canada Council. Her work Garland was awarded the Jules Léger prize in 2005. In 1997, she received the Hunter Foundation Award for Emerging Artists, and in 2003 a Chalmers Fellowship. She has created several of her works while in residence at the Leighton Studios of the Banff Centre for the Arts. In addition to her work as an independent composer, she was Artistic Director of Arraymusic, one of Toronto’s major contemporary music ensembles, from 1988 to 1993. She was a founding member of the multidisciplinary performance collective, Urge, (1992-2006). She has taught composition privately and at Wilfrid Laurier University (1999-present).
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Linda Catlin Smith
A Nocturne
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Among the Tarnished Stars
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As You Pass a Reflective Surface
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Blackwing
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Cantilena
for viola and vibraphone
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Linda Catlin Smith
Dreamer Murmuring
for piano trio
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Linda Catlin Smith
Drifter (version for acoustic guitar)
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Drifter (version for electric guitar)
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Linda Catlin Smith
Far From Shore
for piano trio
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Linda Catlin Smith
Forest
for nine violins
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Linda Catlin Smith
Galanthus (snowdrop)
for violin solo
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Linda Catlin Smith
Garland
for chamber ensemble
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Gold Leaf
for chamber orchestra
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Linda Catlin Smith
Gondola
String Quartet No.4
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Linda Catlin Smith
In Black Ink
for mezzo-soprano and piano
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Linda Catlin Smith
Light and Water
for vibraphone and cello
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Linda Catlin Smith
Low Tide
for accordion solo
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Linda Catlin Smith
Meadow
for string trio
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Moi Qui Tremblais
for violin, piano and percussion
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Morning Glory
for chamber ensemble
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