Meredith Monk is a composer, singer, and creator of new opera, music-theater works, films and installations. Recognized as one of the most unique and influential artists of our time, she is a pioneer in what is now called “extended vocal technique” and “interdisciplinary performance”. Her groundbreaking exploration of the voice as an instrument, as an eloquent language in and of itself, expands the boundaries of musical composition, creating landscapes of sound that unearth feelings, energies, and memories for which there are no words. 

Over the last six decades Monk has received numerous awards and honors including a MacArthur Fellowship, Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters from the Republic of France, induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, and a National Medal of Arts. She has also been hailed as one of National Public Radio’s 50 Great Voices and “one of America’s coolest composers”. Celebrated internationally, her work has been presented at major venues throughout the world. 

Monk has recorded with the ECM New Series label since 1981 and was recently honored with a 13-disc box set of her work, Meredith Monk: The Recordings, in celebration of her 80th birthday, which includes the 2008 GRAMMY® nominated impermanence. Selected scores of her work are available through Boosey & Hawkes. She is also the subject of two books of interviews: Conversations with Meredith Monk, by arts critic and Performing Arts Journal editor Bonnie Marranca, and Une voix mystique, by French author Jean-Louis Tallon.

From Fall 2023 to Spring 2024, Meredith Monk. Calling, her first European retrospective exhibition, was realized as a collaboration between Oude Kerk Amsterdam with Hartwig Art Foundation, and Haus der Kunst München. A catalogue of interviews, essays, previously unpublished archival material and documentation of the exhibitions was published in Fall 2024.

Currently celebrating her 60th Performance Season, Monk offered sold-out performances of her newest work, Indra’s Net, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York last September, the third part of a trilogy of her works exploring our relationship with the natural world. She continues with a host of events centered in New York City through May 2025.