Leah Reid

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Leah Reid
Born1985 (age 39–40)
New Hampshire, U.S.
Alma mater
OccupationComposer
Employer University of Virginia
SpouseJames 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

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

  1. 1 2 3 "Leah Reid". Guggenheim Fellowship. Retrieved May 9, 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 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.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Leah Reid". University of Virginia. Archived from the original on May 22, 2025. Retrieved May 8, 2025.
  4. 1 2 Allen, David (January 16, 2025). "Paint, sounds and smartphones". Monadnock Ledger-Transcript. p. A10 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. 1 2 Punter, Jennie (2023). "Leah Reid's Reverie". Musicworks. Retrieved May 8, 2025.
  6. ↑ Hambleton, Elizabeth (May 11, 2016). "MicroFest: Accordant Commons @ Automata". New Classic LA. Retrieved May 9, 2025.
  7. 1 2 "Leah Reid". MacDowell. Retrieved May 8, 2025.
  8. ↑ "Composer creates a musical piece with the sounds of drawing and writing". NPR. January 4, 2022. Retrieved May 8, 2025.
  9. ↑ Arnott, Christopher (February 23, 2025). "Women composers are celebrated at annual CT classical music event". Hartford Courant. ProQuest   3169754660.
  10. ↑ Feeney, Mark (April 8, 2022). "2022 Guggenheim Fellows announced". Boston Globe. ProQuest   2648172511.
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