Linda Catlin Smith

Linda Catlin Smith is a composer born in New York City in 1957 and based in Toronto since 1981. She writes slow, quiet chamber and orchestral music with ambiguous harmony, often taking cues from writers and painters such as Marguerite Duras, Cy Twombly and Agnes Martin. In 2005 she won the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music. Smith was artistic director of Arraymusic from 1988 to 1993 and has taught composition at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her Piano Quintet (2014) appeared in a 2019 Guardian list of the best art music written since 2000.