
Meredith Monk
Born
November 20, 1942 (82 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Queens, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Known For

Monk in Pieces
Self
2025

Songs of Ascension
2019

Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
Self
2018

Meredith Monk: Solo Concert 1980
Herself
2013
Meredith Monk: Inner Voice
Self
2009

Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance
Self
2001
Meredith Monk
1994

The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros
Herself
1993

Book of Days
Madwoman
1989

Uncle Meat
Red Face Girl
1987

Four American Composers: Meredith Monk
Herself
1983

Turtle Dreams
1983

Paris
Paris Couple
1982

Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers
1980
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
Self
1979

16 Millimeter Earrings
Herself
1979

Quarry
Child
1978

A portrait of Meredith Monk
1974
Institutional Quality
1969