Leah Reid
Leah Reid | |
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| Born | 1985 (age 39–40) New Hampshire, U.S. |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Composer |
| Employer | University of Virginia |
| Spouse | James DeMuth |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2022) |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | Composing timbre spaces, composing timbre in space (2013) |
| Doctoral advisor | Mark Applebaum |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | Electroacoustic[1] |
Leah Christinne Reid[2] (born 1985) is an American composer. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, she does work in electroacoustic music and is a professor at the University of Virginia.
Biography
[edit]Reid was born in 1985[1] in New Hampshire;[3] her mother Chris Reid is a painter, with whom she once collaborated.[4] After attending Walnut Hill School as a composition and vocal performance major,[5] she studied at McGill University (where she obtained her bachelor of music degree) and Stanford University (where she obtained her master of arts and doctor of musical arts degrees);[3] her doctoral dissertation Composing timbre spaces, composing timbre in space was supervised by Mark Applebaum.[2]
In 2016, her piece Single Fish was performed at MicroFest by Accordant Commons in Los Angeles; Elizabeth Hambleton of New Classic LA called it "a great celebration of the sounds three humans can make together".[6] In 2017, she was appointed a MacDowell Fellow.[7] Her experimental piece "Sk(etch)", where she would record herself writing words, was featured on NPR Morning Edition in January 2022,[8] and it won the Tesselat Electronic Music Competition.[4] That same year, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition,[1] and she was the first-place winner of the 2022 Musicworks Electronic Music Composition Contest with her acousmatic piece Reverie.[5]
In 2023, she was awarded a second MacDowell fellowship.[7] She was the composer-in-residence of the 2025 Women Composers Festival of Hartford.[9]
She works at the University of Virginia as an assistant professor of composition.[3] She has also served in Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States as vice-president for programs and projects, as well as vice-president of the International Alliance for Women in Music.[3]
As of 2022, she lived in Woburn, Massachusetts.[10] She is married to James DeMuth.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Leah Reid". Guggenheim Fellowship. Retrieved May 9, 2025.
- ^ a b c Reid, Leah Christinne (2013). Composing timbre spaces, composing timbre in space: an exploration of the possibilities of multidimensional timbre representations and their compositional applications (PDF) (Thesis). Stanford University.
- ^ a b c d "Leah Reid". University of Virginia. Retrieved May 8, 2025.
- ^ a b Allen, David (January 16, 2025). "Paint, sounds and smartphones". Monadnock Ledger-Transcript. p. A10 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Punter, Jennie (2023). "Leah Reid's Reverie". Musicworks. Retrieved May 8, 2025.
- ^ Hambleton, Elizabeth (May 11, 2016). "MicroFest: Accordant Commons @ Automata". New Classic LA. Retrieved May 9, 2025.
- ^ a b "Leah Reid". MacDowell. Retrieved May 8, 2025.
- ^ "Composer creates a musical piece with the sounds of drawing and writing". NPR. January 4, 2022. Retrieved May 8, 2025.
- ^ Arnott, Christopher (February 23, 2025). "Women composers are celebrated at annual CT classical music event". Hartford Courant. ProQuest 3169754660.
- ^ Feeney, Mark (April 8, 2022). "2022 Guggenheim Fellows announced". Boston Globe. ProQuest 2648172511.
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