meadow
bridgham
composer
composer
meadow bridgham
  • february snow
    for piano - 5'
  • fantasietta
    for clavichord - 1'
  • mosaic
    for guitar - 5.5'
  • bridget variations
    for piano - 14'
  • scenes from a garden
    for piano - 8'
  • sonata rustica
    for piano - 8'
  • seventeen years
    for piano - 11'
  • september serenade
    for carillon - 2.5'
  • responses
    for toy piano - 15'
  • toccare
    for piano - 5'
  • john's dream
    for piano - 7'
  • nocturne no. 2, "starsea"
    for piano - 5'
  • cello variations
    for cello - 10'
  • marimba fantasy
    for marimba - 5'
  • bassoonatina
    for bassoon - 10'
  • wub
    for piano - 4'
  • nocturne no. 1
    for piano - 7'
  • trombone sonata
    for trombone and piano - 5'
  • lipstick rhapsody
    for two bassoons - 8'
  • mozschubartsibinsky
    for two pianos - 13'
  • phantoms
    for flute and piano - 5'
  • lightning bugs
    for flute, clarinet, and marimba - 6'
  • follies
    for oboe and piano - 13'
  • concertino
    for bassoon and string quartet - 11'
  • chakohnne
    for viola and piano - 8'
  • elegies
    for flute and violin - 6'
  • partita
    for two wind instruments - 15'
  • bagatelle
    for two pianos - 6'
  • dance portraits
    for seven instruments - 9'
  • avon yard
    for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano - 15'
  • violin sonata
    for violin and piano - 22'
  • trio variations
    for oboe, bassoon, and piano - 12'
  • radiant echoes
    for saxophone quartet - 4'
  • pas de deux
    for two cellos - 6'
  • chasm
    for cello and piano - 4'
  • fanfare for the forum
    for two antiphonal trumpets - 1'
  • songs for the people
    for high voice and piano - 4'
  • seasons of seizing
    for low voice and piano - 25'
  • pain
    for low voice and piano - 4'
  • starsea
    for high voice and piano - 3'
  • if only
    for high voice and piano - 10'
  • sweetfeather
    for medium voice and piano - 5'

demo reel

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Close-up black-and-white portrait of a person with shoulder-length hair, round glasses, and a slight smile, wearing a turtleneck and overalls.

meadow bridgham
(they/she)

Meadow's melodies spin out and layer like the Baroque; their form is firmly constructed like the Classical; their gestural language is sweeping like the Romantics; and their harmonic signature is born from 20th-century neotonality, where kaleidoscopic chord progressions shift and cycle endlessly, forming chains of modulations.

Many dichotomies hold their music together—minimal-maximal, tonal-atonal, new-old—and Meadow balances it all with extramusical framing; this includes the anthropomorphizing of insects, the allegorizing of stories from their life, and the commenting on aspects of their identity.

Meadow has worked with important composers such as William Bolcom, Martin Bresnick, Aaron Jay Kernis, Libby Larsen, Bright Sheng, and Joan Tower. Additionally, as a fellow of the Rubin Institute of Music Criticism, they had the privilege of working with influential writers such as Alex Ross, Tim Page, John Rockwell, and Anne Midgette.

Their music has been performed as part of the American Music Festival, the New York Festival of Song, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Third Place [MusicFest], and the North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference. They have reached international audiences through the Westben Composer-Performer Residency in Canada, the Brisbane Music Festival in Australia, and the International Double Reed Society Convention in Thailand. Recent appearances of their music include the Rivera Court at the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Utzon Room at Sydney Opera House, and Merkin Hall at New York's Kaufman Music Center.

Meadow holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Yale School of Music, where their Violin Sonata was awarded the Frances E. Osborne Kellogg Memorial Prize for best composition written in a contrapuntal style.

calendar

seventeen years @ Kaufman Music Center - NYC - Nov 2024

seasons of seizing & scenes from a garden @ Ruth Lilly Performance Hall - Indpls, IN - Mar 2025

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2024

seventeen years @ Chiostro di Santa Chiara - Bari, It - Aug 2024

seventeen years @ Del Mar International Composers Symposium - Del Mar, CA - Aug 2024

seventeen years @ Southeastern Piano Festival - Columbia, SC - Jun 2024

seventeen years @ David Li Sound Gallery - Melbourne, AU - Apr 2024

february snow @ Ruth Lilly Performance Hall - Indpls, IN - Mar 2024

seventeen years @ Sydney Opera House - Sydney, AU - Mar 2024

fantasietta @ Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame - Presented by Vox Novus - Feb 2024

seventeen years @ FSU Festival of New Music - Tallahassee, FL - Feb 2024

seventeen years @ Rivera Court @ DIA - Detroit, MI - Jan 2024

2023

trombone sonata @ Ruth Lilly Performance Hall - Indpls, IN - Nov 2023

seventeen years @ Brisbane Music Festival - Brisbane, AU - Oct 2023

mosaic @ University Heights United Methodist Church - Indpls, IN - Oct 2023

seventeen years @ Tempo Rubato - Melbourne, AU - Oct 2023

cello variations @ Washington State University - Pullman, WA - Oct 2023

cello variations @ CWU New Music Festival - Ellensburg, WA - Oct 2023

lipstick rhapsody @ 2023 IDRS Conference - Mahidol University, Thailand - Jul 2023

lipstick rhapsody @ Third Place [MusicFest] - Ann Arbor, MI - May 2023

toccare @ Ruth Lilly Performance Hall - Indpls, IN - Mar 2023

john's dream @ Ruth Lilly Performance Hall - Indpls, IN - Mar 2023

2022

seasons of seizing @ Sprague Memorial Hall - New Haven, CT - Nov 2022

responses @ Sprague Memorial Hall - New Haven, CT - Nov 2022

mozschubartsibinsky @ Sprague Memorial Hall - New Haven, CT - Nov 2022

lightning bugs @ Sprague Memorial Hall - New Haven, CT - Nov 2022

cello variations @ Sprague Memorial Hall - New Haven, CT - Nov 2022

concertino @ Sprague Memorial Hall - New Haven, CT - Nov 2022

songs for the people @ Ruth Lilly Performance Hall - Indpls, IN - Nov 2022

mozschubartsibinsky @ Ruth Lilly Performance Hall - Indpls, IN - Oct 2022

responses @ Ruth Lilly Performance Hall - Indpls, IN - Oct 2022

nocturne no. 1 @ Ruth Lilly Performance Hall - Indpls, IN - Sep 2022

sonata rustica @ Ruth Lilly Performance Hall - Indpls, IN - Sep 2022

follies @ Ruth Lilly Performance Hall - Indpls, IN - Apr 2022

phantoms @ Ruth Lilly Performance Hall - Indpls, IN - Dec 2022

2021

seventeen years @ Ruth Lilly Performance Hall - Indpls, IN - Nov 2021

lightning bugs @ The Indianapolis Propylaeum - Indpls, IN - Aug 2021

chakohnne @ Ruth Lilly Performance Hall - Indpls, IN - Apr 2021

concertino @ Ruth Lilly Performance Hall - Indpls, IN - Mar 2021

seventeen years @ Ruth Lilly Performance Hall - Indpls, IN - Nov 2021

lightning bugs @ The Indianapolis Propylaeum - Indpls, IN - Aug 2021

chakohnne @ Ruth Lilly Performance Hall - Indpls, IN - Apr 2021

concertino @ Ruth Lilly Performance Hall - Indpls, IN - Mar 2021

2020

elegies @ Florida State University - Dohnányi Recital Hall - Tallahassee, FL - Dec 2020

nocturne no. 2, “starsea” @ Ruth Lilly Performance Hall - Indpls, IN - Nov 2020

elegies @ Ruth Lilly Performance Hall - Indpls, IN - Nov 2020

dance portraits @ Hilbert Circle Theater - Wood Room - Indpls, IN - Mar 2020

partita @ North American Saxophone Alliance 2020 Biennial Conference - Tempe, AZ - Mar 2020

pain @ Ruth Lilly Performance Hall - Indpls, IN - Feb 2020

2019

nocturne no. 2, “starsea” @ Ruth Lilly Performance Hall - Indpls, IN - Nov 2019

john’s dream @ Ruth Lilly Performance Hall - Indpls, IN - Nov 2019

partita @ Butler University - Lilly Hall - Indpls, IN - Nov 2019

nocturne no. 2, “starsea” @ Butler University - Lilly Hall - Indpls, IN - Nov 2019

nocturne no. 2, “starsea” @ Ind. Piano Teachers Guild (IPTG) - Indpls, IN - Oct 2019

bagatelle @ Ruth Lilly Performance Hall - Indpls, IN - Sep 2019

nocturne no. 2, “starsea” @ Ind. Music Teachers Assoc. (IMTA) - Indpls, IN - Sep 2019

partita @ Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall - Indpls, IN - Sep 2019

2018 and before

cello variations @ Staller Center for the Arts - Stony Brook, NY - Nov 2018

avon yard @ Ruth Lilly Performance Hall - Indianapolis, IN - Nov 2017

violin sonata @ The Music Shed - Norfolk, CT - Jun 2017

violin sonata @ Sprague Memorial Hall - New Haven, CT - Apr 2017

marimba fantasy @ Sprague Memorial Hall - New Haven, CT - Mar 2017

trio variations @ RiverCenter for the Performing Arts - Columbus, GA - Jun 2016

starsea @ Albany Symphony - St. Paul’s Episcopal Church - Troy, NY - Jun 2016

violin sonata @ Sprague Memorial Hall - New Haven, CT - Apr 2016

sweetfeather @ New York Festival of Song - Marc A. Scorca Hall - New York, NY - Feb 2015

pas de deux @ Shandelee Music Festival - Sunset Concert Pavilion - Livingston Manor, NY - Aug 2014

For information regarding scores, commissions, and bookings, contact Dr. Meadow Bridgham (they/she) using the form below. They may also be contacted directly at bridghammusic@gmail.com