Kirk-Evan Billet, born in York, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., writes instrumental and vocal chamber music and works for chorus, drawing on his background as a flutist and early-music singer. He earned the D.M.A. in composition as a student of the late Ludmila Ulehla at the Manhattan School of Music, where he received the commencement award for outstanding achievement in composition. He also holds degrees from the University of Miami (M.M.), Peabody Conservatory (B.M.), and Drexel University (M.S. in Library and Information Science). From 2008 to 2010, he was a Fulbright lecturing scholar to Lebanon, serving as a visiting music professor at the Université Antonine, just outside Beirut. Billet is the catalog librarian of the music library at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University; he also teaches occasional graduate seminars (Stravinsky, Arabic music) at Peabody. Active in the music cataloging profession at the national level, he is currently the editor of the Music Library Association’s Music Cataloging Bulletin and has served on various MLA committees and working groups.