Libby Meyer is a composer whose work reflects the natural rhythms and patterns of the world around her. Her music is inspired by natural soundscapes and a curiosity about the relationship between the arts and the natural world. Her music has been performed throughout the United States by soloists and ensembles including City Water, Juventas Ensemble, The Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra, ConScience Chamber Singers, Capella Clausura, Tuulli String Quartet and Corvus New Music Ensemble. She is a co-founder of the Keweenaw Soundscape Project established to aurally document the Keweenaw region and surrounding lands for ecological, social and artistic value. She is a member of the Landscape Music Network, a group of composers and musicians from across the United States who have created substantial bodies of work connected to landscape, nature, and place, and for whom inspiration from the natural world is an ongoing focus.

She has served as Composer-in-Residence at Isle Royale National Park, The Douglass Park Conservatory and the Visby International Center for Composers, in Visby, Sweden. She has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Jackson Center for Teaching and Learning, The Michigan Tech Research Excellence Fund, The Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, The Sorel Foundation, The American Composers Forum and the Wyatt Fund. 

Recent projects include a new film score for 1925 film The Red Kimona directed by Dorothy Davenport as part of the Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers released by Kino Films in November of 2018 as well as a score for the 1912 comedy short C’est la faute à Rosalie for Cinema’s First Nasty Women a 4-disc DVD/Blu-ray set featuring rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, anarchic slapstick destruction, and suggestive gender play and a recording project of her vocal works with Capella Clausura recorded in May of 2019 and to be released on Albany records in December 2021.

Libby is also an active composer of theatrical incidental music and has written music for several productions of by Tech Theater Company including Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Silent Sky by Laura Gunderson and most recently Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Libby lives with her husband, a secretive cat and their large Pyrenees mountain dog on a small farm in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula surrounded by the choruses of sand hill cranes, white throated sparrows, woodcocks and spring peepers depending upon the season. Despite winters that regularly deliver over 300” of snow, they plant a large garden, keep honeybees, a flock of chickens and maintain a small apple and cherry orchard.

Libby holds a DMA in Music Composition from Northwestern University in Chicago and is currently a Teaching Professor in Music Theory and Composition at Michigan Technological University.