Meg York Curriculum Vitae
Bachelor in Music Clarinet Performance University of New Mexico, USA, course work in Theater, Early Music, and Flamenco Dance accompaniment.
Music Teachers: Gundecha Brothers, Dhruphad Institute, Bhopal, India
Sedat Gulci, Turkish clarinet and modal music theory, Istanbul, 2023
Ali Kayaci, Turkish clarinet and modal music theory, Istanbul 2025 and 2026
Dr. Scott Marcus, University of California, Santa Barbara
Dance Teachers: Flamenco: Eva Encinias-Sandoval, Pablo Rodarte, Swing: Frankie Manning and Norma Miller
I have led modal music ensembles to accompany dance since 2000 to celebrate and elevate world dance music performance artists and their allies.
Equity Actor in the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Production of the Yiddish play Indecent
Roshni Is Light Immigrant and Refugee community outreach in Aurora Colorado, USA
International Rescue Committee music and dance outreach featuring hand percussion, Denver, Colorado, USA
Athena Project Artist in Residence at Swallow Hill Music, Denver, CO USA
Soloist with Hal Aqua and the Lost Tribe, Sherefe Middle East Band, Zuruna Middle Eastern Ensemble, Gora Gora Orkestar, Kantorei Chorus, the Django Reinhart style Swing Magique, Sirena Belly Dance Studio, Clan Tynker Family Circus, Circus Luminos, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the Hindustani fusion ensemble, KeyJamKey, Boulder, Colorado, USA
I've held modal music workshops at CU Denver and Regis University, in Colorado, Stockton California University and University California, Santa Barbara, Highlands University, Las Vegas, New Mexico, Santa Fe College, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Radio:
KGNU Musica Mundi Show in Boulder, Colorado
KVNF National Public Radio in Paonia, Colorado
KFUN in Las Vegas, New Mexico
Live Dance Workshops Presentations:
Sirena Belly Dance, Albuquerque, New Mexico,
Bella Diva Dance, Glendale, Colorado
Pomegranate Dance studios, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
International Clarinet Association 50th Anniversary Conference in person workshop in 2023 plus an online ICA Lunch and Learn seminar in 2025.
Recordings:
Village Squared, an album created for the Boulder International Folk Dance Veelah Balkan Band, 2008
Atash, I founded the Iranian music Farabi Ensemble to create one ballet sound track for choreographer Shahrzad Khorsandi and David Taylor Zikr Dance company.
Soundtracks for Dance:
5Rhythms in New York
Nahawand Allemande fusion of Romanian style improvisation and J.S. Bach Partita melodies created for Romy Keegan of Maple Street Dance, for a debut at the Bal Anat Gala in Albuquerque, NM, 2022.
Warner Brother’s films score placement represented by 411 Music, Los Angeles, CA, ASCAP Recording artist
Sangre de Christo Chorale Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Produced the immersion weekend events Tarab Retreat from 2018 to 2024, with grants from Alex Wilson Legacy Fund, Denver Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs, The Persian Cultural Circle, Boulder City Arts Alliance, and Musical Ambassadors of Peace.
Festivals:
Arise Festival, Longmont Colorado, led several workshops for music for dance improvisation and an Indonesian Monkey Chant workshop with dance performance.
Global Fest, Aurora, CO
Mizel Museum/Mercury Cafe KlezFests
Boulder Balkan Bash, Boulder CO
Golden Fest, Brooklyn, New York
Boulder KlezFest, Boulder Colorado
Albuquerque Folk Festival, NM
Mendocino Eastern European Folklife Center Balkan Camp
Middle East Music and Dance Festival, California
Society of Creative Anachronisms eventsCommunity Outreach includes Denver Sister Cities and Denver Spring Institute events, Musical Ambassadors of Peace Benefit Concerts, playing for Colorado Senate sessions, Yo Yo Ma’s 2018 Colorado Tour, Roshni Denver and the Boulder Balkan Bash.
Teaching
Private teaching studio
Baum’s Music Store 1990 to 1997
Evergreen School of Music 2000 to 2010