Donemus Webwinkel

MEREDI is an half Armenian half German internationally acclaimed composer, producer and pianist, born and based in Berlin. The classically trained composer and performer stands for a new understanding of composition – she creates beautiful, catchy, longing melodies. While surprising with experimental, contemporary creations. Her music is spreading worldwide since she released her first album Stardust in 2020.
MEREDI has been playing the piano for as long as she can remember. “I always had this crazy amount of music in my head, just composing itself,” she recalls. “It was too loud to ignore, and I only learned how to read music to write my own pieces down.” She was six when she began taking piano lessons and, after her teacher informed her parents how gifted she was, she embarked on a classical music education, winning awards for her compositions by the age of 13 and seeing her first orchestral pieces performed when still in her teens. In 2020, she released Stardust, her debut solo album – deemed, among other accolades, one of BBC Music Magazine’s Top 10 Post- Classical Albums of 2020 – with Trance following in 2021, and there’s also been work for theatre, ballet, TV and film, as well as collaborations with, among others, her Modern Recordings labelmates, Robert Ames and Tara Nome Doyle. In addition, ‘White Flowers Take Their Bath’, written for Deutsche Grammophon violinist Mari Samuelsen’s Lys, has approached 5 million global streams.
If, however, MEREDI had little cause to look back in recent years, she began nevertheless to look further afield. Indeed, she described 2022’s remix collection, Some Other Place, as being “about wishing yourself far away”. She felt an ill-defined restlessness, a sense she wasn’t where she should be, and knew she needed to resolve this. As it happens, this sensation of not knowing where she belonged wasn’t entirely unfamiliar: though she remains equally at ease in conventional venues, she’s preferred performing in unlikely spaces, from galleries and clubs to electronic festivals, even Berlin Fashion Week, since early on in her recording career. Her music, after all, isn’t entirely conformist: although she’s drawn heavily on her classical piano training, there are other forces at play, including a determination to employ electronic sources alongside more established instrumentation. It’s something that makes her music both contemporary and timeless, but from the start she’s always been driven by her heart.
MEREDI’s music is played on several radio stations such as BR-Klassik, Klassik Radio, Flux FM or Scala Radio UK, KEXP Radio US. She gives concerts in prestigious places like „Tigran Art Studio“ (Armenia), „Zenner“, Silent Green (Berlin), or the „Berlin Fashion Week“. She was the first artist ever to give a concert in the Santa Prisca church in Taxco, Mexico. Currently MEREDI is working on new album.