New Zealand-native, Los Angeles-based composer Linda Dallimore writes music for orchestras, chamber ensembles and films. Her work features jagged melodies, colorful timbres, groove-driven rhythms, repetitive structures and assemblage, weaving narratives rooted in psychological processes as well as sociological, cultural, and environmental concerns. Linda’s music emerges from introspection and empathy, drawing on an awareness of cognition and psychology as catalysts for musical ideas.

Linda’s compositions have been played by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Ensemble Klangrauschen, Stroma, the New Zealand Trio and the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble. Linda has participated in festivals across Europe and the US, including the Aspen Music Festival, SICPP (USA), Etchings Festival (France), UPBEAT (Croatia) and VIPA Festival (Spain). She is a member of the Composers Association of New Zealand and represented by SOUNZ centre for New Zealand Music and APRA AMCOS.

Linda is completing a Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She holds a Master of Musical Arts in composition at Yale School of Music, degrees from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and she is an alumna of Berklee College of Music. Her mentors and teachers include Andrew Norman, Donald Crockett, Christopher Theofanidis, Martin Bresnick, Eve de Castro-Robinson, Jonathan Bailey Holland, Marti Epstein and Ben Cadwallader.

Linda currently serves on the music theory faculty at the Colburn school and the LA Phil’s Composer Fellowship Program for young composers.

As a flutist, Linda has performed in festivals and for large audiences, including the Monterey Jazz Festival (USA), Manly Jazz Festival (Australia), Symphony Under the Stars (NZ). Linda has experience as a principal Flutist in orchestras, jazz bands, as a session musician and chamber music player, and enjoys playing in many musical genres.