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Dr. Leah Reid (b. 1985) is a composer, sound artist, researcher, and educator, whose works range from opera, chamber, and vocal music, to acousmatic, electroacoustic works, and interactive sound installations. Her primary research interests involve the perception, modeling, and compositional applications of timbre. In her works, timbre acts as a catalyst for exploring new soundscapes, time, space, perception, and color. In recent reviews, Reid’s works have been described as “immersive”, “haunting”, and “shimmering”.
Winner of a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship, Reid has also received the American Prize in Composition (Vocal Chamber Music Division) and first prizes in the “Galaxies” 6th International “New Vision” Composition Competition in memory of Nicolaus Copernicus, Musicworks’ Electronic Music Composition Contest, the 8th KLANG! International Electroacoustic Composition Competition, the Gaetano Amadeo Prize, the Tesselat Electronic Music Competition, the Franz Schubert Conservatory International Composer Competition, Musicworks Magazine’s Marcelle Deschênes Prize in Electronic Music, Sound of the Year’s Composed with Sound Award, the Film Score Award in Frame Dance Productions’ Music Composition Competition, and the International Alliance for Women in Music’s (IAWM) Pauline Oliveros Award. She also received second prizes in the Iannis Xenakis International Electronic Music Competition and the 13th International Destellos Competition. Reid has been awarded fellowships from Guerilla Opera Company, Transient Canvas, Copland House, the Hambidge Center, MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), the Ucross Foundation, and Yaddo. Reid has worked with and received commissions from ensembles such as Accordant Commons, Blow Up Percussion, the Boston New Music Initiative Ensemble, Concavo & Convesso, Ensemble Móbile, Excelsis, Guerilla Opera, JACK Quartet, McGill’s Contemporary Music Ensemble, Neave Trio, the Piedmont Duo, Sound Gear, Talea, and Yarn/Wire. She is passionate about collaboration and has worked with choreographers such as Alessandro Sciarroni, Lydia Hance of Frame Dance Productions, Kim Brooks Mata, Kimberleigh Holman of Luminarium Dance Company, as well as media artist Mona Kasra and scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Her compositions have been presented at festivals, conferences, and in major venues throughout the world, including Aveiro_Síntese (Portugal), BEAST FEaST (England), Espacios Sonoros (Argentina), EviMus (Germany), Forgotten Spaces: EuroMicrofest (Germany), the International Computer Music Conference (USA, Ireland & Chile), IRCAM’s ManiFeste (France), LA Philharmonic's Noon to Midnight (USA), the Matera Intermedia Festival (Italy), the New York City Electronic Music Festival (USA), the OUA Electroacoustic Music Festival (Japan), the San Francisco Tape Music Festival (USA), Série de Música de Câmara (Brazil), the Society of Composers National Conference (USA), Soochow New Voice Concert Series (China), the Sound and Music Computing Conference (Germany), the Tilde New Music Festival (Australia), the Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium (Canada), and the Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technology (Taiwan), among many others. Her works are published with Ablaze Records, Cero Records, New Focus Recordings, Parma Recordings, RMN Classical, and BabelScores. She is Vice President of the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) and Vice President for Programs and Projects for the Society of Electroacoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS). She also served on the board and was the Artistic Director of the Boston New Music Initiative (BNMI) from 2023 to 2025. Reid received her D.M.A. and M.A. in music composition from Stanford University and her B.Mus. from McGill University. Her principal teachers include Mark Applebaum, Jonathan Berger, Brian Ferneyhough, Sean Ferguson, Ana Sokolovic, and Brian Paul Harman. She splits her time between Massachusetts and Virginia, where she lives with her husband, two children, and dog. Reid is currently an Assistant Professor of Composition and Computer Technologies at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA). She has also taught at Stanford University (Stanford, CA), University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA), and at the University of Silicon Valley (San Jose, CA). |
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