Meg Huskin

Meg Huskin is a Chicago-based composer, vocalist, and writer whose work embraces melody and the rhythms of language to tell stories that blur the boundary between modern and traditional themes. Recent performances of her work have taken place at the LunART Festival, Madison New Music Festival, OLMC Concert series, and Chicago’s inaugural songSLAM competition, where she earned second place for “Tikka Masala.”

Meg graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Mead Witter School of Music where she majored in music composition, voice performance, and creative writing. As part of her senior thesis, she wrote a libretto based on an original story, Fayaway, and has since been setting it to music. She has studied with composers Gilda Lyons, Laura Schwendinger, Stephen Dembski, and others. She has participated in New Amsterdam Record’s Composing Workshop, the Wintergreen Composer’s Retreat and the From-Page-to-Stage Emerging Composers program. Her choral work “They Tore Down the Church” won the Mullins Sacred Music Prize in 2016.

Meg remains an active singer, having studied with soprano Mimmi Fulmer. Whenever she can, she supports Chicago’s storefront opera community in ensemble roles, or technical support. In her free time, she likes to read novels, watch Netflix, and hang out with her sisters.

Watch Meg’s commissioned works here! You can find more on our YouTube playlist from the 2019-20 World Premiere Concert.

”Maddie & Dakota” - words by Emily Friend - music by Meg Huskin - performed by Olivia Doig, Emma Smart, and Christina Giuca

Three Poems

1. Do I Eat?

2. The Yellow Zoo

3. Dear World

Words by Nina Szabo - Music by Meg Huskin - performed by Olivia Doig and Christina Giuca

“Sunday Morning” - words by Darren Stella - Music by Meg Huskin - performed by Olivia Doig and Christina Giuca