Linda Waterfall

Adjunct Instructor

Songwriting

LWaterfall@cornish.edu

Originally from the Midwest, Linda Waterfall grew up in a musical family with early training in classical piano, music theory, composition and voice. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with a B.A. in visual art. When she performs, she accompanies herself on both guitar and piano. Her original compositions reflect both classical sensibility and many vernacular influences. Paul de Barros, writing in the Seattle Times, characterized her work as a “...Whitmanic embrace of the American panorama, mixing vernacular and highbrow culture, and everything in between.”

Waterfall has released eleven albums of original compositions, including songs and choral music. She tours periodically as a solo musician, composes choral and vocal music, and works in the studio as both a record producer and session musician. Her most recent choral compositions, That Art Thou: Songs from the Vedas and Songs from the Dao De Jing featuring the University of Washington Chamber Singers, the Esoterics, and Evergreen State College’s Evergreen Singers, were funded by the Seattle Arts Commission and King County 4Culture.