Born in Berlin in 1992, Meredi began playing the old piano that stood in the hallway of her family home at an early age and started lessons at the age of six. While continuing her musical education at a performing arts school in the German capital, she also studied at both the Hanns Eisler Conservatory and the Berlin University of the Arts, later specialising in composition for film and media at the Munich Conservatory. Her first orchestral pieces were performed while she was still in her teens and she has won a series of composition competitions, including several run by the Jeunesses Musicales organisation.
Away from her sometimes restrictive formal studies, Meredi was influenced by the huge diversity of cultures and art present in Berlin. In 2020 she released her solo piano debut album Stardust, whose accolades include having been named one of BBC Music Magazine’s Top 10 post-classical albums that year. Stardust was followed by the ambient album Trance (2021) and Some Other Place (2022), a solo piano reimagining of Trance. Whether working alone or in collaboration with other artists, her music is inextricably associated with her need to express herself. “The piano was always my island or retreat,” she says, recalling the instrument on which she played her first notes. “It’s still more intuitive for me to speak through music than with words.”
5/2024