I’m Meg York, Owner of Tarjama Ensemble LLC and director of 

Banda Tarjama

I have a Clarinet Performance degree from University of New Mexico, USA, with an emphasis in Theater, Early Music, and Flamenco Dance accompaniment.  I’ve led hundreds of live music events within Arabic, Balkan, Bellydance, Flamenco, Nepali, Persian, Turkish, Romanian and Yiddish communities for over thirty years. 

I love playing clarinet!  It's the traditional lead instrument that binds these ensembles and audiences together with flair, fun and finesse.  

I created Banda Tarjama in 2000 to celebrate and elevate world dance music performance artists and their allies.  

Along the way, I've been an Equity Actor in the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Production of the Yiddish play Indecent, soloed with Roshni Is Light, Eitan Kantor, Athena Project, Hal Aqua’s Lost Tribe, Sherefe Middle East Band, Zuruna Middle Eastern Ensemble, Gora Gora Orkestar, the Kantorei Chorus, the Django Reinhart style Swing Magique, Sirena Belly Dance Studio, with Clan Tynker, and the Hindustani fusion ensemble, KeyJamKey.

I've performed at CU Denver and Regis University, in Colorado,  Stockton University and UCSB in California, and Highlands University, Santa Fe College, New Mexico. I've hosted bands on KGNU Musica Mundi in Boulder, and KFUN in Las Vegas, NM.  I've led bands at both Mendocino Balkan and Middle East Camps, California, as well as for for Society of Creative Anachronisms events, for Sirena, Bella Diva Dance, and Pomegranate Dance studios.   

Banda Tarjama presented an interactive concert with a global ensemble of clarinetists at the International Clarinet Association 50th Anniversary Conference in 2023 and an online Lunch and Learn seminar in 2025.  I'm excited to be a member of the ICA Global Jazz Committee, connecting with world music clarinetists.  

A favorite project of mine is the lush dance score Atash ballet sound track created with Persian classical musicians and choreographer Shahrzad Khorsandi for David Taylor Zikr Dance. 

I also blended Romanian style improvisation and J.S. Bach Partita melodies, Nahawand Allemande for Romy Keegan of Maple Street Dance which she debuted at the Bal Anat Gala in Albuquerque, NM, 2022.  

I'm very pleased that my music is used by 5Rhythms in New York.

 I'm represented by 411 Music, Los Angeles, CA, as an ASCAP recording artist, for Warner Brothers films.

I also have sung with the Sangre de Christo Chorale alto section in Santa Fe, New Mexico:  what a treat!

I live part of each year in Turkey and Greece to get closer to those ancient clarinet traditions. 

Tarjama means “Translation” in Arabic, Farsi, and archaic Hebrew.  We play  for concerts, parties, weddings, celebrations of life, and workshops. 

Contact today for booking or collaboration.