Geoff Smith is a British music composer, writer, and academic. Along with his wife, singer Nicola Walker Smith (born 1964), he has written and recorded several pieces of contemporary classical music as well as published the 1995 book New Voices: American Composers Talk about Their Music (alternate title American Originals: Interviews with 25 Contemporary Composers). His compositions have been described as "minimalist" and "pop classical" and he's been compared to contemporaries Philip Glass

Philip Glass

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 and Steve Reich

Steve Reich

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Many of Smith's musical works take their lyric content from traditional English verse or English Romantic

Romantic poetry

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 poets including Emily Brontë

Emily Brontë

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, John Keats

John Keats

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, Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti

Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems...

, Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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, and Elizabeth Siddal

Elizabeth Siddal

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Smith is a former student of English composer/double bassist Gavin Bryars

Gavin Bryars

Richard Gavin Bryars is an English composer and double bassist. He has been active in, or has produced works in, a variety of styles of music, including jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, historicism, experimental music, avant-garde and neoclassicism.-Early life and career:Born in Goole, East...

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Albums

• Gas Food Lodging (Kitchenware, 1993)
• 15 Wild Decembers (Sony Classical, 1995)
• Black Flowers [credited to The Geoff Smith Band] (Sony Classical, 1997)

EPs

• Six Wings (Blissout/Fifteen Wild Decembers/Possess Me/Six Wings of Bliss) (Sony Classical, 1995)
• Six Wings of Bliss (Sound Factory Vocal Mix/Strings of Bliss/Sound Factory Vocal Dub/Voice in the Dark Mix) [remixes by Junior Vasquez
  Junior Vasquez
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   and Ronnie Ventura] (Epic, 1995)
• Six Wings of Bliss (New Remixes: Factory Mix/Tribal Dub/Indian Summer Mix/Far Removed Dub/Ambient Dub Edit) [remixes by Junior Vasquez
  Junior Vasquez
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  and Ronnie Ventura] (Epic, 1995)

Other Recordings

• The Garden [Nicola Walker Smith] (Kitchenware, 1991)
• Spaces and Places [Simon Emmerson] (Sargasso, 2009)

External links

• Emmerson: Spaces and Places (via iTunes)
• Morning Concert: Nicola Walker Smith and Geoffrey Smith (from August 21, 1992)
• Selected music samples from Nicola Walker Smith's The Garden
• WorldCat record for New Voices: American Composers Talk about Their Music