Meredith Monk

Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk
	Monk in 2014
Background information
Birth name	Meredith Jane Monk
Born	November 20, 1942 (age 81); New York City, New York, US
Genres	Avant-garde
Years active	1968–present

Meredith Jane Monk (born November 20, 1942)^[1] is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. From the 1960s onwards, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which combine music, theatre, and dance, recording extensively for ECM Records.^[1] In 1991, Monk composed Atlas, an opera, commissioned and produced by the Houston Opera and the American Music Theater Festival. Her music has been used in films by the Coen Brothers (The Big Lebowski, 1998) and Jean-Luc Godard (Nouvelle Vague, 1990 and Notre musique, 2004). Trip hop musician DJ Shadow sampled Monk's "Dolmen Music" on the song "Midnight in a Perfect World". In 2015, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Barack Obama.