Lila Wildy Quillin (b. 1999) is a New York-based composer originally from the Atlantic coast of Maryland. Having spent much of her life investing in the visual arts, film, and architecture as well as composition, Lila is especially dedicated to exploring the relationships between music and other fields of design. In her young career she has worked with performers and ensembles including IEMA as part of the 2022 Lucerne Festival, Ensemble Suono Giallo for ilSUONO 2022, JACK Quartet, the Divertimento Ensemble, the Zodiac Trio, Elena Urioste, Tom Poster, and Anthony McGill, and will be working with Tak Ensemble in 2025. 

Lila is currently pursuing her PhD in Composition at the CUNY Graduate Center under the Graduate Center Fellowship and Provost Enhancement Fellowship. She previously studied with Philippe Leroux at McGill’s Schulich School of Music under the Edith Jacobson Low-Beer Fellowship, and holds her bachelor's degree in composition from New England Conservatory, where she studied with Efstratios Minakakis and John Mallia under the Presidential Distinction Scholarship. She has also studied with Judah Adashi at Peabody Preparatory, where she was the recipient of The Peabody Preparatory Achievement Award in Composition in 2016 and 2017. She has been the composer-in-residence for Berlin’s own Chamber Music by the Sea festival since 2018, and has attended Divertimento Ensemble’s International Workshop for Young Composers (2023), Darmstadt (2023) Lucerne Festival (2022), ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week (2022), New Music on the Point (2021), Zodiac Music Festival and Academy (2019), Curtis Summerfest Young Artist Summer Program (2016), and Interlochen Arts Camp (2015). She has been a finalist in the 2019 Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra Composition Competition and 2017 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, as well as an Emerging Composer in the Tribeca New Music Competition in 2016 and 2017. 

In her free time, Lila enjoys studying piano and playing clarinet in improvisation-based ensembles, as well as sketching, painting, and animating short films. She aspires to travel the world and collaborate with as many musicians and artists as possible, not only to have the chance to be inspired by foreign cities and dialogues, but also to explore all the intricate and compelling ways music can borrow from and communicate with art.