Meg Huskin
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Meg Huskin
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Meg Huskin (b. 1995) is a composer, vocalist, and opera artist, whose work embraces theatricality, vocal lyricism, and genre-blending in order to tell modern stories. Her work often relies on the recontextualization of traditional forms and tropes, re-stylizing them in her own musical and literary language. Through her artistic work, Meg aims to honor the internal experiences of everyday people, especially those whose experiences are not often in the spotlight, including women, children, and neurodivergent people. She derives inspiration from her work as a teacher and teaching artist, as well as her training as a choral and opera singer.
In 2023, Meg saw the premieres of two original theatrical works. My Dearest Jane: a Jane Austen Cabaret, which she composed and performed in, premiered to a sold out Baltimore Theater Project. The experimental work is an exploration of identity through art-making, and follows a young artist as she comes to learn more about herself by embodying the identities of her favorite Jane Austen heroines. Her chamber opera Rabbit Season is a story about family, sisterhood, and grief, is a co-creation between Meg and librettist (and lifelong friend) Sarah Perret-Goluboff. The work initially appeared in shortened format as part of the Peabody Opera Etudes program, and will return in full to Baltimore in 2026. She is a co-founder of TellTale Opera Theatre, a new nonprofit dedicated to the development and production of new opera-theatre in Baltimore.
Meg’s work has been performed at several festivals across the country, including New Music on the Point, Walden Creative Musician’s Retreat, N.E.O. Voice Festival, and the LunART Festival - one of the country’s only festivals to feature work exclusively by self-identifying women. She has received commissions from organizations such as Lynx Project’s Autism Advocacy series, a program which commissions songs using poems written by young people with autism, and her song “Maddie and Dakotah” is featured on their album beautiful small things. In 2019, she earned second prize for “Tikka Masala” at the inaugural Chicago songSLAM competition. As a composer who often works with singers, she’s been praised for her natural text-setting and her use of comedy and storytelling. Oftentimes, Meg chooses to write her own texts for the songs she composes. Her songs have been published in anthologies by NewMusicShelf and North Star Music, LLC.
Meg has studied with composers Du Yun, Katherine Balch, and Gilda Lyons among others. Meg remains an active singer, and is currently employed as a regular choral singer at the Baltimore Basilica. As a writer, her articles have been published by I Care if You Listen.com and Lyric Opera of Chicago’s program books. She earned her Master’s degree in Composition from the Peabody Institute in 2023. Her Bachelor’s in Music and Creative Writing is from the University of Wisconsin. Committed to education, she has worked as a teaching artist with Arts for Marylandand developed an arts-integrated curriculum designed to teach math and reading fundamentals to Baltimore fifth-graders by and through music.
