Drew Flieder is a composer and music theorist from Morristown, New Jersey, currently based in Dayton, Ohio. His catalog includes works for a range of ensembles as well as electronic and mixed works, performed in the United States and Europe. Saṃsāra, for voice and electronics, won the 2019 Bernard Rogers Memorial Prize. Flieder studied composition with Robert Morris, Matthew Barber, and Oliver Schneller at the Eastman School of Music (BM), and with Curtis Roads and JoAnn Kuchera-Morin at the University of California, Santa Barbara (MA, PhD). His current research develops theories of generalized tonality, encompassing harmony and voice leading, as well as theories of meter and rhythm, all of which inform his compositions. He has also worked on the semiotic and mathematical foundations of musical concepts. This research has appeared in the Journal of Mathematics and Music, Perspectives of New Music, and the proceedings of the 2026 International Conference on Mathematics and Computation in Music. In 2026 he was appointed to a four-year term, beginning in 2027, on the editorial board of the Journal of Mathematics and Music.