Meri KleinSmid

Background

Meri von KleinSmid was born in Los Angeles, California, and studied choral music, piano, violin and flute as a child.

She was educated at the University of Washington and Columbia College Chicago, where she studied music history and ethnomusicology.

She lived for a while in Cambridge, England, but later moved to the Seattle/Vancouver area.

The Civil Defense 60X60, including her work, won an award at the Just Plain Folks Music Awards in Nashville, Tennessee.

She has been a member of the experimental musical collective SoniCabal and the Chinese Music Society of North America, among other organizations.