Detroit-based violinist and violist Meg Rohrer (they/them/she/her) specializes in new and experimental chamber music.  Meg is the violinist of Hub New Music, a quartet described as “a prime mover of piping hot 21st century repertoire” (the Washington Post) dedicated to commissioning and touring new chamber works. Meg is also the violinist and violist in Virago, a Southeast Michigan based quartet that explores the liminal space of improvised chamber music through deep listening practices, commissioning projects and inter-arts collaborations.

Rohrer is a member of the Kalkaska String Quartet with whom they frequently perform around metro Detroit, and a former member of Converge, with whom they received the Rosseels String Quartet Fellowship for their work premiering new works for string quartet. Rohrer has recently performed at the 2023 MATA Festival in Brooklyn, New Music Detroit’s new music marathon Strange Beautiful Music, the Seattle Symphony’s Octave 9 Series, the Riot Ensemble Festival in London, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music, the Ann Arbor Summer festival, the University Musical Society’s Parable Path A2Ypsi Series, the Taos Chamber Music Group, University of South Carolina’s Southern Exposure Series, and the Third Place Concert Series. Recent residencies include Indiana University, Shenandoah Conservatory, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Brown University, University of Michigan, and University of Southern California.

Meg has given concerto performances with the National Chinese Orchestra Taiwan, the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, the University of Michigan Symphony Band, the Rowan University Wind Ensemble and the California State University Fullerton Wind Symphony. A regular member of the Lansing Symphony Orchestra and the Jackson Symphony Orchestra, Meg has performed with the Detroit Opera Orchestra, Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra, the Mendocino Music Festival Orchestra, and the Ann Arbor Symphony. Meg has made concertmaster appearances with the Michigan Philharmonic and the University of Michigan Campus Philharmonic Orchestra. 

As an educator, Meg has trained in the Suzuki method and is influenced by the pedagogies of Mimi Zweig, Mark Mutter, Marilyn O’Boyle, Blair Milton, Danielle Belen, and Ed Sarath. Meg has taught through the Sphinx Organization, Crescendo Detroit, the Crowden Music Center in Berkeley, CA, the Ann Arbor Public Schools camp at Interlochen Center for the Arts, the Àkójọpò Music Festival, The People’s Music School in Chicago, and the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra summer workshop.

Meg earned their masters degree at the University of Michigan studying with Danielle Belen and Caroline Coade, and holds a bachelors degree from Northwestern University where they studied with Blair Milton.  Meg is a New Mexican who grew up in California and is now embracing life as a Michigander. In their free time, Meg enjoys baking sourdough bread, the ever expanding Star Wars universe, drinking tea, and spending time with their eight siblings.