Pril Smiley, born 19 March 1943 in Mohonk Lake, New York. She worked at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in the 1960s and 1970s with Milton Babbitt, Otto Luening and others. She became one of four primary instructors in electronic music at the center and also served as director. From 1968-74 she worked as a consultant to the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater in New York City and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1975. She ended her career as a composer in the mid-1980s, but continued to teach, and retired from Columbia in 1995. Her works have been performed internationally Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.