Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1942-11-20 (Age: 84)
Place of Birth
Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Meredith Monk
Biography
Meredith Jane Monk (born November 20, 1942) 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.
Filmography (21)
Monk in Pieces
2025
Songs of Ascension
2019
Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
2018
Meredith Monk: Solo Concert 1980
2013Meredith Monk: Inner Voice
2009
Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance
2001Meredith
1995Meredith Monk
1994
The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros
1993
Book of Days
1989
Uncle Meat
1987
Four American Composers: Meredith Monk
1983
Turtle Dreams
1983
Paris
1982
