Jessica Lindsay Smith (b. 1992, Naarm/Melbourne, Aus) is a composer based in regional Victoria on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Taungurung Country. Jessica’s music is concerned with relationships, motherhood, and the interplay between the natural and the artificial.

Jessica is primarily a composer but is active in improvisation, and sound art. She presents her work internationally and has collaborated with ensembles and performers including Ensemble Offspring, Punctum and the Australian Art Orchestra, The Verdi Music School (Italy), Luciano Tristaino and Gisbert Watty (Italy), The Melbourne Women’s Choir, Luke Howard and Nat Bartsch, and Ensemble Goldentree.

Jessica’s art-form-bending opera Esoteric (2022) considers our place in the ecosystem and the fleeting power we have to affect it, featuring a cast of improvising musicians accompanied by visual art (Rachael Archibald) and movement (Arabella Frahn-Starkie). The work premiered at The Brunswick Mechanics Institute and was later performed at Tempo Rubato.

Jessica is the recipient of the Catherine Mary Sullivan Scholarship (2025) and the Adolph Spivakovsky Scholarship (2024), and is currently a Master of Music (Research) candidate at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne. Her research examines the interconnection of ritual and motherhood, and the creative disruption inherent to maternal experience.

She creates music that exalts the fluidity of genre and art form crafting sound with a focus on vivid colours and unusual sounds, writing music that is “poignant…and melancholic” (classikON).