Judith Shatin

Judith Shatin (Allen) (born November 21, 1949) is an American composer.

Biography Shatin was born and raised in Albany, New York, to a clinical psychologist father and a microbiologist mother. At the age of five, her father bought her a piano and she fell in love with music. In her youth, she learned to play the flute.

She holds degrees from Douglass College, the Juilliard School, and Princeton University, at which institution she was a pupil of Milton Babbitt.

Currently, she is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor at the University of Virginia. She also founded and is Director of the Virginia Center for Computer Music.

In 2012 Shatin was honored as one of the Library of Virginia's "Virginia Women in History".