Megan Esther Grey

Application materials

Megan Esther Grey, Urlicht

Megan Esther Grey, Teaching Video

9/16/2023

Megan Esther Grey, Ich habe genug: DMA Recital 8/22/2023

on diversity, equity, and inclusion:

From my personal and professional experience, I believe higher education should provide transformative experiences resulting from meaningful collaboration among student, faculty and local communities. Drawing from global cultures and art forms, music provides unique opportunities for student-faculty expression. My teaching is driven by a conviction that all students have ability and my responsibility is to help them express and share music to the best of their skills and ambitions. My teaching spaces offer students safe places to develop as people and artists. The same can be said of my shared spaces for musical performance. There will always be a place and purpose for standard western repertoire but as an artist, I pride myself in with an ability to create a more immersive performance experience through nontraditional means and nontraditional spaces. Doing so, students and audience members may feel their voices can be part of the performance.

The future of our art form and a liberal arts education at large relies on an embracing of each individual’s uniqueness. I think one of the best places to do this is in the performance setting. By programming new works, especially those by minorities, we are able to give the students and the audiences a taste of the present. There is always a place and purpose for standard repertoire, but one of the things I pride myself in artistically is my ability to create a more immersive performance experience through nontraditional means. By engaging with audience members in ways where they feel their voice can also be heard we are able do what needs to be done: allow every individual’s voice to be heard.