impermanence; recorded for ECM New Series (release date Spring 2008)

Basket Rondo; Commissioned by the Western Wind Vocal Ensemble, 6 voices

Three Heavens and Hells; (Choral Version), Commissioned by the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, 44 voices

impermanence; 8 Voices, Piano, Keyboard, Marimba, Vibraphone, Percussion, Violin, Winds, Bicycle Wheel

Night; Chamber Orchestra, 8 Voices

Vocal Gestures; Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York.

Stringsongs; commissioned by the Kronos Quartet

The Impermanence Project; eight voices, piano, keyboard, marimba, vibraphone, percussion, violin, clarinets, bicycle wheel

The Impermanence Project; eight performers; performances: Riverside
Studios, London, England

Archeology of an Artist 2; Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College, Easton Pennsylvania

Last Song; solo voice and piano; words by James Hillman

Possible Sky; (in progress) first symphonic work commissioned by Michael Tilson Thomas for the New World Symphony

mercy; recorded for ECM New Series (release date November 2002);

Basket Rondo; (in progress), commissioned by the Western Wind Vocal Ensemble

Eclipse Variations; (sound installation), The Whitney Museum of American Art 2002 Biennial, New York.

Show People: Downtown Directors and the Play of Time; Exit Art/The First World, New York.

mercy; seven voices, piano, synthesizer, marimba, vibraphone, percussion, violin, clarinets.

Refractive Voices; Ancestor Shout; Little Breath Motor; in collaboration with David Behrman; voice, electronics, viola, piano four hands.

Boys 1; Boys 2; Boys 3; four voices, overdubbed tape piece composed for a reading of Rick Moodyís Boys on WNYC.

mercy; in collaboration with Ann Hamilton; six performers, two musicians; performances: The American Dance Festival, Durham, NC; The Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut; Royce Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, California; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Miami Light Project, Miami, Florida; Performing Arts Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, New York; Singapore Arts Festival, Singapore; Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Urbana-Champaign, IL

Micki Suite; four voices.

Eclipse Variations; four voices, esraj, sampler, (for 5.1 surround-sound)

Clarinet Study #1, solo clarinet

Cello Study #1, solo cello and voice

Trumpet Study #1, solo trumpet.

SHRINES; Frederieke Taylor/TZ Art, New York.

Magic Frequencies, six voices, percussion, 2 keyboards, theremin, violin, jaw harps, tape.

Magic Frequencies; six performers, two musicians;
Performances: Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Beckett, MA; Dance 98, Muffathalle, Munich, Germany, The Joyce Theater, New York, NY; Lafayette College, Easton, PA; Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA; Hamilton College, Clinton, NY; Krannert Center, Urbana, IL; Wisconsin Union Theater, Madison, WI; Power Center, Ann Arbor, MI; Agnes Scott Theater, Decatur, GA; Carver Cultural Center, San Antonio, TX; Chamizal Theater, El Paso, TX; Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ; University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; Alex Theater, Glendale, CA; Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Trafo, Budapest, Hungary; The Archa Theater, Prague, Czech Republic

Art Performs Life: Merce Cunningham/Meredith Monk/Bill T. Jones; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Steppe Music; solo piano.

Volcano Songs; released on ECM New Series, CD, 289 453 539-2.

The Politics of Quiet: a music theater oratorio; twelve voices, two keyboards, French Horn, violin, bowed psaltery.

Monk and the Abbess: The Music of Meredith Monk and Hildegard von Bingen. Performed by Musica Sacra; BMG/Catalyst; CD, 09026-68329-2

The Politics of Quiet: a music theater oratorio; for fourteen performers. performances: PS122, New York; Byham Theater, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Musikteatret Albertslund, Coopenhagen, Denmark; .Festival DíAvignon, Avignon, France; Lied Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln, Nebraska; The Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York; Encontros Acarte Festival, Lisbon, Portugal; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

A Celebration Service; For twenty performers. A nonsectarian worship service commissioned by The American Guild of Organists. James Memorial Chapel, Union Theological Seminary, New York; Spoleto Festival, Charleston, South Carolina; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Danspace Project, New York.

Archeology of an Artist, Vincent Astor Gallery, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York.

Nightfall; sixteen voices.

Denkai and Krikiki Chants; four voices.

American Archeology #1: Roosevelt Island; seventy voices, organ, bass, medieval drum, shawm.

Volcano Songs (Solo); solo voice and piano, tape.

St. Petersburg Waltz; solo piano version.

Volcano Songs; solo; performances: The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; PS122, New York; Hancher Auditorium, Iowa City, Iowa; Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; Theater Bernardines, Marseille, France; International Summer Theater Festival, Hamburg, Germany; Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois; Hong Kong Arts Festival, Hong Kong, China; Jacobís Pillow Dance Festival; Becket, Massachusettes; Festival díAutomne, Paris, France; Saitama Arts Center, Tokyo, Japan.

American Archeology # 1; for seventy performers, performed at two sites in New York: Roosevelt Island Lighthouse Park, and Renwick Ruin.

ATLAS: an opera in three parts; released on ECM New Series, CD, 289 437 773-2.

Volcano Songs; two voices

St. Petersburg Waltz; piano, and

New York Requiem; solo voice, piano. Originally presented as the suite Custom Made.

Phantom Waltz and Ellis Island; released on U.S. Choice (anthology of American music performed by Double Edge), CRI, CD, 637.

Return to Earth; released on Of Eternal Light ; for twenty-four voices. Catalyst (anthology of choral music performed by Musica Sacra), CD, 0926-61822-2.

Street Corner Pierrot; music by Donald Ashwander. West Kortright Centre, East Meredith, New York.

Evanescence; in collaboration with Lanny Harrison. Music by Donald Ashwander. West Kortright Centre, East Meredith, New York.

Three Heavens and Hells; four voices.
Facing North; released on ECM New Series, CD, 437 439-2.

ATLAS: an opera in three parts; eighteen voices, two keyboards, clarinet, bass clarinet, sheng, bamboo sax, two violins, viola, two cellos, French horn, percussion, shawm, glass harmonica.

ATLAS: an opera in three parts; for twenty-nine performers. performances: The Houston Grand Opera, Houston, Texas; The Wexner Center for the Performing Arts, Columbus, Ohio; American Music Theater Festival, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Hebbel Theater, Berlin Germany; Odeon Theater, Paris, France; Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York.

Book of Days; twelve voices, synthesizer, cello, bagpipe, hurdy-gurdy, piano, hammered dulcimer; Released on ECM New Series, CD, 839 624-2.

Phantom Waltz; two pianos.

Facing North; in collaboration with Robert Een; two voices, piano, pitch pipe.

Facing North; for two performers; performances: The House Loft, New York; West Kortright Centre, East Meredith, New York; The Danspace Project, St. Mark's Church, New York; UCLA, Los Angeles, California; Laforet Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan; Black Box Theater, Oslo, Norway; Mythos Festival, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut; Festival d'Automne, Paris, France; District Curators, Washington, DC; Carl Orff Saal, Munich, Germany; Fabrik, Hamburg, Germany; Kurhaus, Hall in Tirol, Austria; Wisconsin Union Theater, Madison, Wisconsin; Kaufman Auditorium, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan; The Clark Theater at Lincoln Center, New York; ThȂtre de Vevey, Vevey, Switzerland; Novell Hall, Taipei, Taiwan.

Book of Days (film score); ten voices, cello, shawm, synthesizer, hammered dulcimer, bagpipe, hurdy-gurdy.

Raven, Parlor Games, Cat Breath, and Graveyard Pavane; solo voice, two pianos. Composed for Ellen Fisherís Dreams Within Dreams: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe.

Book of Days; black-and-white and color, sound (stereo/Dolby), 35mm, 74 minutes. Director of photography: Jerry Pantzer. Costumes and art direction: Yoshio Yabara. First 35mm screening at New York Film Festival, New York. Reedited for television: video, 55 minutes: in association with Alive From Off Center, New York.

Fayum Music; in collaboration with Nurit Tilles; voice, hammered dulcimer, double ocarina.

Light Songs; song cycle for unaccompanied solo voice.

Book of Days; feature-length film, black-and-white and color, sound, 35mm film transferred to video, 74 minutes. Director of photography: Jerry Pantzer. Costumes and art direction: Yoshio Yabara. First screened at the Montreal Festival of New Film and Video, Montreal; screened in video.

Duet Behavior; in collaboration with Bobby McFerrin; two voices.

The Ringing Place; nine voices.

Do You Be; ten voices, two pianos, synthesizer, violin, bagpipes; Released on ECM New Series, CD, 422 831 782 2

The Ringing Place; for nine performers. Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York.

Scared Song; solo voice, synthesizer, piano.

I Don't Know; solo voice, piano.

Double Fiesta; solo voice, piano.

String; solo voice.

Window in 7's; solo piano.

Ellis Island; two pianos.

Our Lady of the Late: The Vanguard Tapes; Wergo Records, SM 1058. A release of a 1973 Recording.

Acts from Under and Above; in collaboration with Lanny Harrison; for three performers. La Mama Annex, New York.

Book of Days; twenty-five voices, synthesizer.

Window Song; solo keyboard. Composed for Ping Chongís Nosferatu.

Road Songs; solo voice and string quartet. Composed for the film True Stories, directed by David Byrne.

Panda Chant I; four voices.

Panda Chant II; eight voices.

Graduation Song; sixteen voices. Composed for Ping Chongís A Race.

City Songs; two voices and two keyboards.1983Musical Compositions/Recordings

The Games; sixteen voices, synthesizer, keyboards, Flemish bagpipes, bagpipes, Chinese shawm, rauschpfeiffe

Tokyo Cha-Cha; six voices, two electric organs.

Engine Steps; tape collage.

2 Men Walking; three voices, electric organs.

Turtle Dreams; released on ECM New Series, CD 422 811 547-2.

Turtle Dreams (Cabaret); for seven performers. Plexus, New York.

The Games; in collaboration with Ping Chong; for sixteen performers. Commissioned by the Schaub¸hne am Lehnier Platz, West Berlin. Costumes and scenery by Yoshio Yabara. Schaub¸hne am Lehniner Platz, West Berlin.

Mermaid Adventures; color, silent, 10 minutes, 16mm. Projected during Turtle Dreams (Cabaret).

Turtle Dreams (Waltz); color, sound, 1 3/4 ñ and Ω in. video, 27 minutes. Directed by Ping Chong; performed by Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble; coproduced by WGBH-Boston.

View No.1; piano, synthesizer, voice. Composed for Ping Chongís AM/PM.

View No.2; solo voice, synthesizer.

Paris; color, sound, videotape, 26 minutes. Conceived and performed by Meredith Monk and Ping Chong; produced and directed by Mark Lowry and Kathryn Escher. Made in cooperation with the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and KTCA-TV, Twin Cities Public Television.

Dolmen Music; six voices, piano, violin, cello, percussion. Released on ECM New Series, CD, 825 459-2.

Turtle Dreams (Waltz); four voices, two electric organs.

Music Concert with Film; for eight performers. The Space at City Center, NewYork.

Specimen Days: a civil war opera; for fifteen performers. The Public Theater, New York.

Ellis Island; color and black-and-while, sound, 35mm and videotape, 28 minutes, long version. Produced by Bob Rosen.

Silver Lake with Dolmen Music, "Soundings" Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Urbana, Illinois; Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio; Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York

Vessel:an opera epic (Berlin version, revival); for eighty performers. In West Berlin at three locations: S.O. 36, Schaub¸hne Hallesches Tor, and Anhalter Bahnhof.

16 Millimeter Earrings; color, sound, 16mm, 25 minutes. Produced, directed, and photographed by Robert Withers; conceived and performed by Meredith Monk.

Dolmen Music; six voices, cello, percussion. The Kitchen, New York.

Songs from the Hill/Tablet; four voices, piano four hands, two soprano recorders; released on Wergo Records, SM1022.

Recent Ruins; Fourteen voices, tape, cello.

Recent Ruins; for fourteen performers. La Mama Annex, New York.

Ellis Island; black-and-white, silent, 16mm, 7 minutes, short version. Screened as a silent short film and also during a performance of Recent Ruins.

Biography on Big Ego; solo voice and piano; released on Giorno Poetry Systems Records, GPS 0112-013

The Plateau Series; for eight performers. St. Markís Church, New York.

Quarry; color, sound, 16mm, 86 minutes. Produced by Amram Nowak Associates; a documentary record of the opera, performed by The House Company.

Rally; Procession on Airwaves; twenty-eight voices; solo voice and piano. Released on One Ten Records, OTOO1/2.

Tablet; for eight performers. MOMING, Chicago, Illinois

Home Movie Circa 1910; black-and-white, silent, Super-8 and 16mm, 5 minutes. Camera by Meredith Monk and Tony Janetti; shown in Ping Chong's Humboldt's Current.

Quarry: an opera; thirty-eight voices, two pump organs, electric organ, two soprano recorders, tape.

Venice/Milan; twelve voices, piano four hands

Songs from the Hill; song cycle for unaccompanied solo voice.

Tablet; four voices, piano four hands, two soprano recorders.

Quarry: an opera; for forty performers. La Mama Annex, New York. Venice-Milan; in collaboration with Ping Chong; for twelve performers.
OBIE Award for Outstanding Achievement 1976
PERFORMANCES: La Mama Annex, NYC; Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York; International Music Theater Festival, Florence, Italy; The Venice Biennale, Italy; The Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.; The Spoleto Festival, Charleson, SC

Small Scroll; solo voice, piano, soprano recorder.

Anthology and Small Scroll; for nine performers. St. Markís Church, New York.

Quarry; black-and-white, silent, 16mm, 5 minutes. Screened as a silent short film and also as a projection during the opera Quarry. 1974Musical Compositions/Recordings

Our Lady of Late; song cycle for solo voice and wineglass, percussion. Released on Minona Records, out of print.

Chacon; in collaboration with Ping Chong: for twenty-five performers. Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.

Education of the Girlchild; an opera (Part II); for thirteen performers. Common Ground Theater and Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York

Biography; solo voice, piano.

Paris; solo piano

Our Lady of Late; song cycle for solo voice and wineglass. Performed at Town Hall, New York.

Education of the Girlchild; an opera (Part 1); solo voice, piano. International Theatre Festival, Nancy, France.

Paris; in collaboration with Ping Chong; for three performers. The House Loft, New York.

Vessel: an opera epic; for seventy-five voices, electric organ, dulcimer, accordion.

Plainsong for Billís Bojo; Electric Organ.

Mountain; Color, silent 16mm, 10 minutes.

Vessel: an opera epic; for seventy-five performers. In New York at three sites: The House Loft, The Performing Garage, and Wooster Parking Lot.

Key: An Album of Invisible Theater; solo voice and electric organ, vocal quartet, percussion, Jaw harp; released on Increase Records; re-released on Lovely Music, Ltd. (1977), LML19051.

A Raw Recital; music for voice and electric organ; first full concert of

Meredith Monkís music. Solo. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Needle-Brain Lloyd and the Systems Kid: a live movie; for one hundred fifty performers. American Dance Festival, in four sites at Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut.

Tour 4: Organ; for sixty performers. Douglas College, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Tour 5: Glass; for fifty performers. Nazareth College, Rochester, New York.

Tour 6: Gym; for twelve performers. Auburn Community College, Auburn, New York, Buffalo.

Tour 7: Factory; for fifteen performers. State University of New York, Buffalo.

Juice: a theatre cantata in 3 installments; eighty-five voices, eighty-five jaw harps, two violins.

Juice: a theatre cantata in 3 installments; for eighty-five performers. In New York at three sites: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: The Minor Latham Playhouse, Barnard College, and The House Loft.

Tour: Dedicated to Dinosaurs; for sixty-five performers. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Tour 2: Barbershop; for sixty-five performers. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Tour 3 Lounge; for fifty performers. Alfred University, Alfred, New York.

Blueprint (3); for three performers. Colby College, Waterville, Maine.

Blueprint (4); for two performers. The House Loft, New York.

Blueprint (5); for eight performers. The House Loft and Julius Tobias Studio, New York.

Co-op; for thirty performers. Loeb Student Center, New York.

Ball Bearing; color, silent, 16mm, 6-1/2 and 13-minute loops that play continuously forward and backward.

Candy Bullets and Moon; collaboration with Don Preston. Voice, electric organ, electric bass, drums; released on Better an Old Demon Than a New God (1984), Giorno Poetry Systems records, GPS 033.

Dying Swan with Sunglasses; solo voice with echoplex and tape.

Blueprint; for twelve performers. Group 212, Woodstock, New York.

Overload; for five performers. Expo í67, Montreal.

Overload/Blueprint 2; for five performers. In two parts; Part I: installation Judson Gallery; Part II: performance Judson Memorial Church.

Children; black-and-white, silent, 16mm, 9 minutes.

Duet with Catís Scream and Locomotive; for two performers.

Music: original tape collage. The Gate Theater, New York.

16 Millimeter Earrings; solo incorporating film and original music, Meredith Monk voice and guitar, tapes. Judson Memorial Church, New York.

The Beach; solo. Hardware Poets Playhouse, New York.

Cartoon; for seven performers. Judson Memorial Church, New York.

Rel‚che; in collaboration with Dick Higgins; for six performers.

Music: Eric Satie. Judson Hall, New York.

Blackboard; solo. Judson Hall, New York.

Radar; for two performers. Judson Hall, New York.

Timestop; for five performers. Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York.

Diploid; for two performers. Clark Center for the Performing Arts, New York.

Armís Length; for six performers. Music: original sound collage. Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York.

Cowell Suite; solo. Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York.

Break; solo, original tape collage. Washington Square Galleries, New York.

Troubadour Songs; for three performers. Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York.

Vibrato; for four performers. Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York.

Resonance; solo. Music: Meredith Monk solo voice. Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut.

And Sarah Knew; Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York.