# Pril Smiley

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{{short description|American classical composer}}
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'''Pril Smiley''' (born 19 March 1943) is an American composer and pioneer of [electronic music](/source/electronic_music).

==Biography==
Pril Smiley was born in [Mohonk Lake](/source/Mohonk_Lake), [New York](/source/New_York_(state)). She worked at the [Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center](/source/Columbia-Princeton_Electronic_Music_Center) in the 1960s and 1970s with [Milton Babbitt](/source/Milton_Babbitt), [Otto Luening](/source/Otto_Luening), [Vladimir Ussachevsky](/source/Vladimir_Ussachevsky), [Mario Davidovsky](/source/Mario_Davidovsky) and [Alice Shields](/source/Alice_Shields). She became one of four primary instructors in electronic music at the center<ref>{{cite journal|publisher=Women and Music, Volume 13|year=2009|issn= 1553-0612|title=Women Composers and Music Technology in the United States: Crossing the Line|author=Keathley, Elizabeth L.|journal=Women & Music|doi=10.1353/wam.0.0017|s2cid=145415699}}</ref> and also served as director. From 1968 to 1974 she worked as a consultant to the [Lincoln Center](/source/Lincoln_Center) Repertory Theater in [New York City](/source/New_York_City) and was awarded a [Guggenheim Fellowship](/source/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.<ref>{{cite book |title=Unsung: a history of women in American music|author=Christine Ammer|year=2001}}</ref>

==Works==
Smiley composed over forty works for film, theater and dance. Selected works include:
*''Eclipse'' (1967)
*''Kolyosa'' (1970)
*''Forty-Three'' (1984)

===Discography===
*''Pioneers of Electronic Music'' (2006) by New World Records
*''Columbia - Princeton Electronic Music Center: Original Four-Channel Versions of Electronic Compositions By Bulent Arel, Milton Babbitt, Mario Davidovsky, Alice Shields, Pril Smiley, Vladimir Ussachevsky'' (Quadraphonic vinyl LP) (1969) by Finnadar Records
*''Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center Tenth Anniversary Album - Vinyl by Milton Babbitt, Edgard Varese, Otto Luening, Pril Smiley, et al.'' by CRI
*''Electronic Music Pioneers'' (1994) - Audio CD by Bulent Arel, Mario Davidovsky, Otto Luening, Alice Shields, et al. by CRI / Composers Recordings
*''Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center 10th Anniversary'' (2010) - Audio CD - Original recording reissued by Edgard Varèse, Milton Babbitt, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Otto Luening, Pril Smiley, et al.

===Filmography===
*1994 ''Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey'' (documentary) thereminist
*1976 ''[The Premonition](/source/The_Premonition_(1976_film))'', composer: electronic music
*1968 ''Two Girls for a Madman'', music effects

==References==
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Category:20th-century American women composers
Category:21st-century American women

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