Kerrith Livengood

Composer Kerrith Livengood’s music has been described as "an escapade of wild effusions" (Bloomington Herald-Times) and "sketchy-seeming" (New York Times). Her music has been performed at KISS 2018, ACO’s SONiC Festival, June in Buffalo, Bargemusic, CCM’s MusicX festivals, the North American Saxophone Alliance annual conference, the Atlantic Music Festival, the Contemporary Undercurrent of Song series, the Cortona Sessions, the Charlotte New Music Festival, and Alia Musica Pittsburgh’s Conductors Festival. She has composed works for the JACK Quartet, Third Angle Ensemble, Duo Cortona, Altered Sound Duo, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Beattie and pianist Adam Marks, soprano Amy Petrongelli, Harry Partch's Adapted Guitar I performed by Charles Corey, and the h2 Quartet. Kerrith’s music features unexpected musical forms, complex grooves, lyricism, improvisation, noise, and humor. Kerrith is a flutist and experimental improviser who has played bird songs while sitting in a tree, worn a towel as concert attire, and performed in concert with Anthony Braxton and Renee Baker. She is a native of Springfield, Missouri; graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, where she studied with Eric Moe, Mathew Rosenblum, Amy Williams and Marcos Balter; and currently teaches at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). Kerrith is also Assistant Director of the New Music On The Point Festival, an annual summer festival for young composers and performers. Since the pandemic began, Kerrith has spent much of her time learning to create music in SuperCollider and collaborating with her friends and colleagues remotely. She looks forward to fire pit hangouts and the return of karaoke someday soon.

Kerrith Livengood

Composer