Linda Catlin Smith has a growing reputation as a composer of deceptively simple and gentle, yet unorthodox and steely music. Her recent CDs ‘Dirt Road’ and ‘Drifter’ on Another Timbre and ‘Thought and Desire’ on World Edition have awakened an interest in her music internationally, and have received stunning reviews. Tim Rutherford Johnson has said that “Smith has a gift – one that I particularly treasure when I find it in music – of turning things suddenly and surprisingly into a new light…. Her time has, finally, come.”  And Alex Ross has described her music simply as “a world that you’d want to live in.” This concert features two recent works for solo strings, ‘Galanthus’ for violin, and ‘Ricercar’ for cello.