About Jake

Composer/filmmaker Jake Meginsky, a New Music USA award winner and Massachusetts Cultural CouncilFellow in both music and film, has collaborated and performed with an extraordinary range of musicians including Milford Graves, Alvin Lucier, Joan La Barbara, Kim Gordon, Vic Rawlings, Greg Kelley, Bhob Rainey, Joe McPhee, Thurston Moore, William Parker, Daniel Carter, Paul Flaherty, John Truscinski, ArthurBrooks, and Bill Nace.

Meginsky frequently collaborates with choreographers and has worked with Cori Olinghouse, Paul Matteson, Stuart Singer, Jennifer Nugent, Susan Sgorbati, Wendy Woodson and Nora Chipaumire. He has a longstanding artistic relationship with Gwen Welliver. Welliver, Singer and Meginsky premiered a new evening-length work, “On Its Face” at Gibney Dance Center (NYC) in May 2018. Meginsky is the recipient of a New Music USA Live Music for Dance award for his original composition for Welliver’s Beasts and Plots, which premiered at New York Live Arts in 2013 and was restaged at the Guggenheim in April 2018. Welliver and Meginsky are currently working on an evening length piece titled “Separation in the Evening” and screened films made  during the quarantine at EMPAC in August 2022.

He is presently the artist in residence at The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought and holds the Musician in Dance position at Smith College.