Linda Catlin Smith composes music that is informed by a deep appreciation for writers and visual artists, creating work which revels in narrative and harmonic ambiguity. Born in New York City in 1957, she studied composition and theory with Allen Shawn in New York before studying with Rudolf Komorous, Martin Bartlett, Jo Kondo, and others…

Chén Yí 陈怡 is a prolific composer who blends Chinese and Western traditions, transcending cultural and musical boundaries. Over the course of the past four decades, Ms. Chen has developed an extremely fluid bicultural musical vocabulary that has informed virtually everything she has written, whether it is a composition for solo piano, wind band, or…

Anton Haefeli (photo courtesy of the ISCM Swiss Section) Musicologist Anton Haefeli was born in 1946 in Brugg, Switzerland. He studied music, history, and art history at the University of Zurich (where his teachers included pianist and musicologist Kurt von Fischer) as well as piano, music pedagogy, and music theory at the Zurich Music Conservatory, where he…

In addition to his influential activities as a composer, conductor, and teacher, Goffredo Petrassi served one term as the President of ISCM from 1954 to 1956.