Meredith Monk

Meredith Monk is the kind of artist who makes me rethink what music can even be. Using her voice as a pure instrument, stripped of words, she carves out emotion that ordinary lyrics never reach. The fact that she's worked across composing, dance, theatre, and film, and recorded so extensively for ECM, tells me she refuses to sit inside any single box. A MacArthur Fellowship and a 1972 Guggenheim aren't handed out lightly, and her opera Atlas shows real ambition. I'll be honest, her work isn't always easy listening, but that's exactly why it stays with me long after it ends.

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Name (English)

Meredith Monk

Name (Japanese)

メレディス・モンク

Reading

めれでぃす・もんく

Born

November 20, 1942 (age 83)

Origin

Queens, New York, United States

Occupation

singer / composer / choreographer / theatre director / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Horse

University

Sarah Lawrence College

Awards & achievements

• 1972 Guggenheim Fellowship
• MacArthur Fellows Program
• Courage Award for the Arts
• Bessie Awards
• Officer of Arts and Letters
• Doris Duke Performing Artist Award

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://www.meredithmonk.org
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith%20Monk
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AC%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q267170

Tags

• New York
• singer
• composer
• choreographer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.