Linda WORSLEY

A well-known composer and arranger with many published works in a variety of styles and media, Linda Worsley is also a producer who works with a team of arrangers, studios, and top quality professional instrumentalists and singers.

Linda produces the recordings for IDEAS products, and writes many of the original instrumental pieces, songs, and arrangements. She has produced thousands of recordings for publishers, including McGraw-Hill, Silver Burdett Ginn, Shawnee Press, and for individual composers and performers.

A native Californian, she has traveled and lived in many parts of the world, collecting and writing songs and instrumental pieces, many of which have been recorded and published. She is a composer, a writer, and has been a music teacher for many years. She holds a BA and MA in music, and has served on the editorial staff of both Silver Burdett Ginn and McGraw-Hill, where she has contributed to their music textbooks as a writer and editor, as well as a producer of recordings.

Well known for her songs for young people, and her thousands of recordings, she is often called upon to serve as a clinician or conductor for music festivals and workshops. Much of her published and recorded music is for adult, professional performers.

She has frequently been commissioned, by state arts councils and private art patrons to write serious works for a variety of ensembles. Her compositions for orchestra, chorus, and chamber ensembles have been performed throughout the United States, and in Belgium, Germany, and Italy.