Till MacIvor Meyn

Composer ∞ Educator ∞ Singer

For more information about scores or commissioning, please email t.meyn@tcu.edu.

"Highly listenable music . . . appealing . . . witty . . . melodically attractive . . . gentle, lyrical." --Fort Worth Star Telegram

"Reactionary . . . haunting . . . gently jazzy . . . pleasant lyricism . . . he possesses a worthy ability to create beautiful sonorities."--D-Magazine.com

Till MacIvor Meyn is Professor of Theory and Composition at Texas Christian University. He earned degrees from U.C. San Diego, Indiana University, and USC’s Thornton School of Music. Till’s music has had international performances in Sweden, Switzerland, France, Italy, Cuba, China, Spain, Ukraine, and Slovenia. Performances of his music in the United States include those at Carnegie Hall, Bass Performance Hall, Clarinet Fest, the Biennial Saxophone Congress, The Florida State University Festival of New Music, the Society for Composers, Inc. National and Regional Conventions, National Flute Association Conventions, the College Music Society National Convention, at the Manhattan School of Music, and at the Intercollegiate Men’s Choruses National Seminar at Harvard, among others. Till is often commissioned to compose new works, including one to open the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra’s 2019 – 2020 season. His recent choral commission Oculi in Astra was premiered by the Singing Girls of Texas in Stockholm, Sweden in 2024. He has been a featured composer at the Cliburn at the Modern series, a finalist in the NFA Newly Published Music Competition for ‘Urban Ragas,’ and earned first prize in the NACUSA Texas Composition Contest for ‘Celestial Mechanics.’ Till’s music is published by Alliance Music Publications, ALRY Publications, C. Alan Publications, ECS Publishing, GIA Publications, Santa Barbara Music Publishing, Walton Music, and self-published by Muse Worthy Music.

Meyn enjoys composing pieces in a wide variety of genres, from chamber to orchestral, choral to band. He can be reached at t.meyn@tcu.edu for information about commissioning works or giving guest lectures and masterclasses.

 

Photographer: Olaf Growald