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| Clarinetist Meighan Stoops has distinguished
herself in both in the classical and new-music realms as
a solo, chamber and orchestral performer. In 2005 alone,
she performed with artists as diverse as Peter Schickele,
Elvis Costello, and tabla virtuoso Pandit Samir Chatterjee.
A member of the Naumburg Award winning Da Capo Chamber Players
(www.da-capo.org),
she has appeared at the Moscow Forum and
Autumn festivals; St. Petersburg Sound Ways festival; Merkin
Hall; the Knitting Factory; the Fischer Center at Bard College;
and many other prestigious venues. In a recent
New York Times review of a program
of works by Joan Tower and George Crumb, Allan Kozinn noted
that Meighan Stoops had a star turn in Ms. Tower's Wings.
Another review glowingly said, she energized Shulamit Ran's
Private Game with real musical dash. Ms. Stoops can be heard
with other ensembles, such as Gotham Sinfonietta, American
Modern Ensemble, the Colorado Quartet, Sequitur, Music from
Japan, International Society of Contemporary Music, John
Eaton's Pocket Opera Players, Ensemble Sospeso, Sylvan Winds
and the Quintet of the Americas. With the quintet, she had
the great honor of performing at the September 11th Commemorative
Ceremony at ground zero.
She is currently principal clarinet in the Garden State
Philharmonic and routinely plays with several New York orchestras:
Brooklyn Philharmonic, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra
of St. Luke's and Dicapo Opera, to name a few. She has recorded
for CRI, Naxos, Albany, and Chesky Records (Area 31, Grammy
nominated). She can be heard on the soundtrack of
Muhammed: Legacy of a Prophet, a PBS documentary with music
by Martin Bresnick and Solidarity, a short film directed
by Nancy Kiang with music by Richard Carrick. Ms. Stoops
is thrilled to be making her co-compositional and theatrical
debut this year in Greed: A Musical Love Story, a new musical
written and directed by Robert Honeywell as part of the Sellout
Festival at the Brick Theater (www.bricktheater.com).
According to www.nytheatre.com, "Stoops? witty and tuneful
score kept me laughing the entire time (days later, I'm also
still humming the songs is a great sign)." Ms. Stoops holds degrees
from Northwestern and Yale universities, where her teachers were Russell Dagon,
Charlie Neidich and David Shifrin. Ms. Stoops teaches clarinet,
recorder, and piano and each summer she coaches young composers
at the Walden School in Dublin, NH. |
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