Name Pril Smiley Role Composer | Education Bennington College | |
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Similar People Alice Shields, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Bulent Arel, Otto Luening | ||
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Pril Smiley (born 19 March 1943) is an American composer and pioneer of electronic music.
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Biography
Pril Smiley was born in Mohonk Lake, New York. She worked at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in the 1960s and 1970s with Milton Babbitt, Otto Luening, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Mario Davidovsky and Alice Shields. She became one of four primary instructors in electronic music at the center and also served as director. From 1968-74 she worked as a consultant to the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater in New York City and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1975. She ended her career as a composer in the mid-1980s, but continued to teach, and retired from Columbia in 1995. Her works have been performed internationally.
Works
Smiley composed over forty works for film, theater and dance. Selected works include: