Meg York has played woodwinds and percussion for two decades in recitals, orchestras, music theatre, and jazz bands. She also plays klezmer, Middle Eastern, Turkish, and Balkan dance gigs. She toured the U.S. playing flute and percussion with Pablo Rodarte's Dance Espana's "Natividad Flamenca", and Mexico twice playing E flat soprano clarinet with The University of New Mexico Orchestra. She also played in the Albuquerque Philharmonic the Symphony Orchestra of Albuquerque, and Albuquerque Little Theatre.

Meg York loves playing for dancers: belly dancers, International line dancers, Jewish events, and Society for Creative Anachronisms' events.

Meg leads the hot Eastern European jazz dance band, Veelah, featuring sizzling instrumental solos, tight horn lines and complex rhythms that groove hard. The line up: Jesse Manno, percussion, Dexter Payne, baritone sax, alto sax, and clarinet, Dave Willey, accordion, and Brian Mullins, tuba.

Some other projects include Congregation Beth Evergreen's Klezmorize, a large vintage style klezmorim with multiple horns David Froman, trumpet, Hal Stein, trombone, Cheri Rubin, keyboards, Jonathan Kaley-Isley, drums, and bass.

The Klez Katz is a leaner group with Michael Mendelson, bass, and Sheldon Sands keyboards. Meg has played with Sheldon in various configurations at the Boulder Jewish Festival for five years.

Meg puts together an annual classical music project. The most recent one included soprano Mandi McKibbin-Ogle, Karissa Swanson, piano, and Emily Bowman, viola in a performance for the International Penwomen's Association 2006 Conference at the Brown Palace in Denver. The group played a song cycle by contemporary composer Winifred Hyson, who recieved lifetime composition awards.

Other groups Meg has played with include:

~Sherefe, a Middle Eastern Fusion, with Jesse Manno and Cameron Powers, oud, bouzouki and vocals, Zahara, percussion, and James Hoskins, cello and gadulka.
~Laughing Hands, Celtic-Flamenco:
~Stockton International Dance Camp House Band, in Stockton, California. with Bruce Sagan, violin and gadulka, Lyuben Dossev, kaval, Milen Slavov, accordion, Petur Iliev, percussion and Terry Friedman, guitar.
~Jurjuna, a Turkish Roma style fusion group, which has also played period Ottoman classical music at the Colorado Early Music Fall Festival since 2003. Jurjuna includes Kylie Faint, kanun, and Chahib Halihal, violin, oud and percussion.

Meg York received a B.A. in clarinet performance from The University of New Mexico with Professor Keith Lemmons.
She also studied flute with Professor Frank Bowen.

Other teachers include clarinetists Christos Govetas, George Chittenden, Lefteris Bournas, Eddie Daniels, Souren Baronian, Margot Leveret, oudists Cameron Powers and Haig Manookian, violinists Beth Cohen, George Lammam, trumpeter Ron Miles, among others.
Meg lives for the Eastern European Folklife Center's Balkan Music and Dance Camps in Mendocino, California.

She teaches at the Evergreen School of Music, and directed the Clarinet Choir at Conifer High School from 2002-2004.

Meg York produces the annual Clarinoodle Conference since 1998.

Meg has 2 CD's available:
Opium with Sherefe (2004)and
Veelah: Village Squared (2006)