Kile Smith

Kile Smith (b. 1956) is an American composer of choral, vocal, orchestral, and chamber music. Smith attended Philadelphia College of Bible (now Cairn University) as a double major leading to Bachelor's degrees in Bible and Music Composition. He went to Temple University in 1980, receiving the M.Mus. in Music Composition in 1983. His composition teachers were Clifford Taylor and Maurice Wright. Kile has been commissioned by The Crossing, Conspirare, Piffaro, Cincinnati’s Vocal Arts Ensemble, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Chor Leoni, William Ferris Chorale, Helena Symphony, Lyric Fest, Westminster Choir College, Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania and iSing Girlchoirs, Choral Arts Washington (DC), Choral Arts Philadelphia, Newburyport Chamber Music Festival, Gaudete Brass, and many others. The Arc in the Sky (The Crossing) received a 2020 Grammy nomination for Best Choral Performance, and Canticle (Cincinnati’s Vocal Arts Ensemble) helped win the 2020 Classical Producer of the Year Grammy. The Singing Guitar (Conspirare, Craig Hella Johnson) including Kile’s The Dawn’s Early Light with the L.A. Guitar Quartet and cellist Douglas Harvey, received a 2022 Grammy nomination for Best Choral Performance. Kile’s Where Flames a Word helped Voces Musicales win the 2020 Estonian Recording of the Year.