Joyce Haviland Mekeel (1931-1997) was a composer and harpsichordist. Mekeel studied at the Paris Conservatory and Yale University, her teachers included Nadia Boulanger and Earl Kim. Later she studied anthropology and began sculpting. She taught at the New England Conservatory and Boston University. Many of her works are for theater or dance, and many of her works treat the voice or traditional instruments unusually. Articles include (1959) "The Harmonic Theories of Kirnberger and Marpurg," Journal of Music Theory Volumes. 3-4, Yale.
Discipline:
Music Composition
Joyce Mekeel
Discipline:
Music Composition
Region: Watertown, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1963, 1964, 1974, 1987
Studios
New Jersey
Joyce Mekeel worked in the New Jersey studio.
The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…