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Darlene Chepil Reid (b. 1958) has been a life-long resident of Thunder Bay, Ontario. She graduated with an BSc in Chemistry and Mathematics from McMaster University in 1981.

Her first study of music took place as a piano student in the early 1990′s. She graduated with an A.Mus. diploma in Piano Pedagogy in 2001. She has studied trombone with John Jasavala, John Helmer and Larry Zimmerman; tuba with David Norris. Darlene attended Lakehead University as a part-time student while working as a private piano teacher and freelance musician in Thunder Bay. Her first compositions, at age 39, were written while studying at Lakehead University with Aris Carastathis. Darlene graduated with a B.Mus. (Honours) in 2003, receiving the Chancellor’s medal for highest academic standing.

Darlene Chepil Reid received a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship in 2003 to pursue graduate studies in composition and graduated in 2005 with MMus from The University of Western Ontario. She studied orchestral composition with Peter Paul Koprowski and David Myska and electroacoustic composition with David Myska. She was awarded a PhD Scholarship from the University of Alberta, Killam Scholarship and SSHRC CGS Doctoral Scholarship and is currently enrolled in DMus at UofA.

She writes for both acoustic and electroacoustic media. Her compositional style is eclectic but focuses on dissonance and fragmentation. Most recently, she has embarked on the study of topology in mathematical music theory and her newest compositions are strongly based on mathematical and stochastic processes. Her compositions have been performed across Canada and the United States.

She is a founding member and President of New Music North, an organization that promotes contemporary concert music in Northwestern Ontario. In this capacity she dedicates herself to advocating and creating opportunities for both established and emerging composers. Darlene is an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre and, a board member and Secretary for the Association of Canadian Women Composers. She is extremely proud of her children, Kyla (in her MA Political Theory, UBC), Mark (in HBSc Mathematical Physics, Lakehead) and Drew (in HBEng Software Engineering, Lakehead), and her partner, Terry, a secondary school principal in Thunder Bay.

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