Graham Meyer

Graham Meyer is a journalist and musician based in Chicago. In his journalistic life, he has been covering local arts, culture, and dining for the past 20 years. His classical-music coverage has appeared regularly in Chicago magazine—where he was the classical-music stringer for 10 years—Crain's Chicago Business, and I Care If You Listen. His concert reviews have appeared in Chicago Classical Review and Bachtrack. 

He has previewed arts events in several newsletters and magazines, most recently in the weekly column The Big Ticket for Crain's. In the dining sphere, he has reviewed restaurants for Chicago magazine and Crain's and for many years was one of the co-authors of Chicago magazine's Dish newsletter, winning a City and Regional Magazine Award in 2014. Other publications his work has appeared in include the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, Rotarian magazine, and the websites of WBEZ and WFMT.

As a musician, he specializes in vocal music. He currently sings baritone in the semiprofessional choir Vox Venti, an ensemble dedicated to recently composed music, especially by composers of historically excluded demographics. Vox Venti programmed his own arrangement of the French Advent carol "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence" in its first holiday concert in December 2022. His setting of the John Keats sonnet that begins "When I have fears that I may cease to be" for SSAA chamber choir won a composition competition conducted by the San Francisco-based chamber choir Musae and was recorded on their album Five. 

Beyond journalism and music, he constructs crossword puzzles. His puzzles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Sun, National Wildlife magazine, and other places. He also plays competitive bridge with his teenage daughter.