Megan Karls makes her home in Montana, where she performs as co-concertmaster of the Great Falls Symphony and with their resident artists, the Cascade Quartet. 

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She serves frequently as guest concertmaster for the Bozeman and Billings Symphonies, Intermountain Opera Company, and String Orchestra of the Rockies, and performs regularly with the Boise Philharmonic and Spokane Symphony.

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Megan is the first woman in classical music to be awarded the Montana Arts Council’s Artist Innovation Award, for her debut video album entitled “Decommissioned: Solo Violin in Cold War Relics,” filmed live in decommissioned military structures across Montana. 

She has recently appeared as soloist with the Milwaukee Philharmonic and Great Falls Symphony, and as a chamber musician, Megan has been a guest artist across the nation, including Oberlin Conservatory, Lawrence University, Northern Illinois University, Roundtop, and the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the US. 

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She spends her summers with the Britt Music Festival, McCall Music Festival, Assisi Performing Arts in Italy, and has traveled to El Salvador as a Teaching Artist and toured Bulgaria in 2021 with Symphony Vratsa. 

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Megan maintains a beloved studio of young violinists and in 2015 received the Yale Distinguished Music Educator Award on behalf of the Great Falls Symphony and Public Schools collaborative partnership.

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Megan is grateful to her mentors from Lawrence University and the University of Iowa, where she holds degrees with honors in Violin Performance and Political Science.