Celebrating the 50th anniversary of her career, Meredith Monk is set to perform at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Carnegie Hall and the Guild Hall starting this fall.
The composer, singer, director, choreographer and Buddhist practitioner will begin her fall season on Aug. 23 at Guild Hall in East Hampton, Long Island, performing her Grammy-nominated Vocal Ensemble. This weekend, however, she is busy as well in the vocal sense, running the workshop Voice As Practice: Instrument of the Heart at Zen Mountain Majesty in upstate Mount Tremper, NY.
Her season long performances at Carnegie Hall will keep in rhythm with the vocal theme as Monk holds the 2014–2015 Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair...the follow up to Bang on a Can's David Lang.
During this residency, performances of her piano, chamber, orchestral, and vocal works feature her wide use of voices and instruments to create music her grand style of music. Monk will perform with her own Vocal Ensemble and all these composer in residence performances are only available as part of the subscription series.
Her night at BAM will feature Monk and her Vocal Ensemble performing On Behalf of Nature on December 3 to 7. Her span of performances at Brooklyn’s own opera house date back to 1977 with Quarry.
When she’s not empowering others with the gifted concept of voice pre language, Monk practices pilates, eats a lot of greens and still takes voice lessons, herself, from Jeannette LoVetri.
Watch below one of Monks earlier performances at BAM, impermanence, written, directed and composed by her in 2012.
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