Meadow Bridgham writes music to move people. Motivated by the human imperative of radical empathy, their work breathes new life into the formal and tonal histories of classical music, a musical upcycling that meets contemporary audiences where they are. Meadow's music is intimate, personal, unapologetically lyrical, and at times abstract, angular, and textural.
Meadow has garnered national recognition with performances at the American Music Festival, the New York Festival of Song, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and the North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference. Their work has 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, among others. Recent performances of their music include Detroit Institute of Arts’ Rivera Court, 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 “Spring Sonata” for violin and piano was awarded the Kellogg Memorial Prize.