Leah Reid

Leah Christinne Reid After attending Walnut Hill School as a composition and vocal performance major, 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”. In 2017, she was appointed a MacDowell Fellow. Her experimental piece “Sk(etch)”, where she would record herself writing words, was featured on NPR Morning Edition in January 2022, and it won the Tesselat Electronic Music Competition. and she was the first-place winner of the 2022 Musicworks Electronic Music Composition Contest with her acousmatic piece Reverie. In 2023, she was awarded a second MacDowell fellowship. She works at the University of Virginia as an assistant professor of composition. 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. As of 2022, she lived in Woburn, Massachusetts. She is married to James DeMuth. References