Tristan Meister

Tristan Meister was born in 1989 and received his first musical training as a member of the Limburger Domsingknaben. He studied choral conducting with Georg Grün, Harald Jers and Frieder Bernius as well as orchestral conducting with Klaus Arp at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim. His studies have included courses with Kai-Uwe Jirka and Morten Schuldt-Jensen. He serves as the director of several choirs including the Ensemble Vocapella Limburg, with which he won a first prize at the Deutscher Chorwettbewerb in 2014, the Wormser Kammerensemble, the Vox Quadrata chamber choir and the Jugendchor Hochtaunus. Alongside these commitments he lectures at the Heidelberg University, where he is an assistant to the university’s music director. With his choirs Tristan Meister is frequently invited to festivals at home and abroad. He is a frequent collaborator of ensembles such as the Baden-Badener Philharmoniker, the Chorakademie Lübeck and the Festivalchor of the Schleswig- Holstein Musik-Festival, and holds workshops and courses for choir singers and conductors.