Lila Meretzky is a composer, educator, and visual artist born and raised in New York City.  She works primarily in chamber, vocal, electronic, and electroacoustic mediums, as well as in music for dance, film, and installation.  Her work is often concerned with (the warping of) memory and language, and subjective experiences of time.  Recent and ongoing collaborations include new works for Sandbox Percussion, Unheard-of//Ensemble, icarus Quartet, Omer Quartet, and the Yale Philharmonia, and for the dance companies New Dialect, X-Contemporary Dance, and the Nashville Ballet.  Her film work includes scoring the 2022 documentary A Climate of Anxiety. As a critic, her writings have been published on the arts blog ArtsNash and she has been featured on the radio at WXNA Nashville.  As an educator, she has taught composition and musicianship at the Walden School in Dublin, New Hampshire and the W.O. Smith Music School in Nashville, Tennessee, and with Yale’s Music in Schools Initiative. She has also taught in the music department at Yale College as an assistant to music technology courses. Lila has attended such festivals as the Next Festival of Emerging Artists, Cortona Sessions for New Music, and Bang on a Can Summer Festival. At Bang on a Can, her works were performed as part of the first LOUD Weekend Festival at Mass MoCA in July 2021. Her other pursuits include performing as a singer and pianist, and making noise on her laptop and accordion.

Paper collage is Lila’s primary visual medium, and her work has been featured in Off Latch Press’ inaugural Off Latch Zine.

Lila is a graduate of the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University, where she co-founded the new music concert series A Humming Under My Feet. In May 2022 she graduated with her master of music in composition at the Yale School of Music, where she continues her studies in the master of musical arts program in Fall 2022.