Bio

(photo: Martin Weinhold)

Linda Catlin Smith grew up in New York and lives in Toronto. She studied music in NY, and at the University of Victoria. Her music has been commissioned, performed and/or recorded by: BBC Proms, Tafelmusik, BBC Scottish Orchestra, Goeyvaerts Trio, Trio Arbos (Madrid), Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras, Arraymusic, Tapestry New Opera, Via Salzburg, Evergreen Club Gamelan, Exaudi, and the Penderecki and Bozzini string quartets, as well as by soloists including Eve Egoyan, Philip Thomas and Elinor Frey. She has had performances at the Tectonics Festival in Glasgow (2017), Huddersfield Festival (2017) and at the Principal Sound Festival (London, 2018) and BBC Proms (2019). Several solo discs of her music have been released: Thought and Desire, with Eve Egoyan, and Dirt Road, Drifter and Wanderer with Apartment House on the label 'another timbre'. Some of her works are now available through Composer Editions, UK.