Meg Cancino grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and has worked as a freelance flutist since the eighth grade. She has played flute & piccolo with the Northeast Ohio Regional Orchestra, the Cleveland Youth Wind Symphony, the Ohio All-State Orchestra, Baldwin-Wallace Summer Music Clinic, the All-Ohio State Fair Band, the Oberlin College-Community Winds, the Sounds of Sousa Band, the Ohio Light Opera Orchestra, as well as at the United Nations with the Chaminade Flute Quartet, of which she was a founding member. She earned her Bachelor of Music in Music Education and Flute Performance at Syracuse University, her Master of Music in Music Education at Duquesne University, and her Certificate in Administration at Towson University. As a public school music teacher, her experience ranges from general music to band, chorus, and orchestra, grades pre-kindergarten through eighth. Currently, she is an elementary band and orchestra director. In 2016, she conducted the Calvert County Elementary Honors Band, and in 2022 she conducted the Charles County Elementary Honors Band. Her article, "Take Two Tubas & Call Me in the Morning" was published in the April 2017 issue of Teaching Music magazine. Her students have played in area all-county, tri-county, and all-state ensembles.