Kile Smith (b. 1956) has composed more than 75 choral works, about 80 songs including a half-dozen cycles, more than two dozen orchestral works, and over 40 chamber and solo instrumental works. He has been Composer in Residence for Lyric Fest, the Helena Symphony, the Jupiter Symphony, and the Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia. For 30 years, the last 18 as Curator, he was at the Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music, the world’s largest lending library of orchestral performance materials, at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Kile has hosted Fleisher Discoveries on radio and podcast since 2002, and is a contributor to the arts and culture magazine Broad Street Review. He and his wife, the soprano, organist, and conductor Jacqueline Smith, live outside Philadelphia. Their three daughters Priscilla Herreid (oboe, Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical winds), Elena Kauffman (cello, Baroque cello, gambas), and Martina Adams (horn) are all professional musicians.