Meg Cotner
Harpsichordist
Performance and Teaching
Astoria, NY
meg@megcotner.com
EDUCATION
2005 Stony Brook University // DMA, Harpsichord Performance
1994 San Francisco Conservatory of Music // MM, Harpsichord Performance
1992 California Institute of the Arts // BFA, Harpsichord Performance
TEACHING
2002-2005 Choral Director/Choral Teacher, Bayport United Methodist Church (Bayport NY)
2005 Pre-concert Lecturer, Stony Brook University
2004-present Private Chamber Music Coaching
2004 Faculty, Amherst Early Music Festival (Bennington College, VT)
2003-2005 Lecturer on Medieval keyboard music and general early music topics (SUNYSB)
2001-2003 Harpsichord Teaching Assistant (SUNYSB)
1992-1994 Harpsichord Teaching Assistant (San Francisco Conservatory of Music)
1992-1994 Teaching Artist, MusicSources (Berkeley, CA)
SELECT PERFORMANCES
Solo
2007 Women’s Studio Center (Long Island City, NY)
2006 Freeze Peach Cafe Holiday Festival (Astoria, NY)
2005 Boston Early Music Festival Demonstration Concert, Studio of Owen Daly
2001-2005 Six Doctoral Recitals (SUNYSB)
Chamber
2007 A Little Midday Music with Rossignol Amoureux (NYC)
2007 Chattanooga Chamber Series with Rossignol Amoureaux (NYC)
2007 Anthroposophic Institute Concert Series (NYC)
2007 Samuel Baron Grant Award Concert with Rossignol Amoureux (Stony Brook, NY)
2007 Baroque Sundays at Three with Rossignol Amoureux (Stony Brook, NY)
2006 Music at St. Mark’s with Rossignol Amoureux (Islip, NY)
2006 Second Presbyterian Concert Series with Rossignol Amoureux (NYC)
2006 Trinity Church’s Concerts at One Series with Rossignol Amouerux (NYC)
2006 Waltz-Astoria recital series (Astoria, NY)
2006 Columbia University Rabi-Werner Concerts with Rossignol Amouerux (NYC)
2005 Waltz-Astoria recital series (Astoria, NY)
2005 Katrina Relief Concert with Rossignol Amouerux (Astoria, NY)
2003 Ensemble Inc. (NYC and Stony Brook, NY)
2003-2004 Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players (Stony Brook, NY)
2001-2005 Stony Brook Baroque (NYC and Long Island)
1992, 1994 Berkeley Early Music Fringe Festival (Berkeley, CA)
Opera
2002 Il Coronazione di Poppea, Stony Brook Opera
2004 Agrippina, Stony Brook Opera
ACCOMPANYING
Present Freelance accompanist on harpsichord and organ
2002-2004 Staff Harpsichord Accompanist, Amherst Early Music Festival (Bennington, VT)
CHURCH MUSIC
2007 Substitute Choral Accompanist, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church (Islip, NY)
2007 Substitute Organist, Steinway Reformed Church (Astoria, NY)
2002-2005 Substitute Worship Accompanist, Bayport United Methodist Church (Bayport, NY)
TUNING AND MAINTENANCE
Present Freelance Harpsichord Tuner
2007 Substitute Staff Harpsichord Tuner (Mannes School of Music)
2001-2003 Staff Harpsichord Tuner (Stony Brook University)
2001-2003 Staff Harpsichord Tuner (International Baroque Institute at Longy)
1992-1994 Staff Harpsichord Tuner (San Francisco Conservatory of Music)
1992-1994 Staff Harpsichord Mover and Tuner (Music Sources, CA)
OTHER INSTRUMENTS STUDIED
Classical Piano and Voice
Choral Singing
Instrumental and Vocal Conducting
Balinese Music – Gamelan with I. Nyoman Wenten and Balinese dance with Nanik Wenten
Indian Sight Singing with the late Amiya Dasgupta
RECORDINGS
Sounds, Come to Life Productions
I Gave at the Office, Pledge Drive
AWARDS AND HONORS
2003-2004 Sidney Gelber Scholarship (SUNYSB)
2001-2003 Teaching Assistantship (SUNYSB)
2001-2005 Tuition Scholarship (SUNYSB)
1995 Greenberg Scholarship for Harpsichordists (SF Early Music Society)
1989 John Irvine Scholarship (CalArts)
1989 Charlotte and Alvin Bronstein Scholarship for the Arts (Ojai Music Festival)
ADMINISTRATIVE WORK
2005 Produced three Katrina fundraising concerts with Astorians for Hurricane Relief
2003-2004 PR Coordinator, Stony Brook University Music Department
2002-2004 Assistant to the Director of the Amherst Early Music Festival Baroque Academy
Note: this CV is available as a standalone document. Please contact me if you would like a copy.