Tristan Meister works as a conductor and lecturer in choral conducting at the music academies in Mannheim and Frankfurt am Main. After his initial musical training with the Limburg Cathedral Boys’ Choir, he studied conducting with Georg Grün, Frieder Bernius, Harald Jers, and Klaus Arp.
He founded the chamber choir Vox Quadrata, has been Artistic Director of the Chamber Choir of Europe since 2024, and is also the musical director of the youth choir as well as the Hochtaunus chamber choir. With the Beethoven Choir Ludwigshafen, he performs oratorio and symphonic choral works from all eras and regularly collaborates with the Mannheim Chamber Philharmonic, the Kurpfälzisches Chamber Orchestra, and the German State Philharmonic of Rhineland-Palatinate. He is also the founder and conductor of the ensemble Vocapella Limburg, with which he has won first prizes at the German Choir Competition and the International Choir Competition in Varna (Bulgaria), among others. There, he was also awarded the special prize for the best conducting performance of the competition.
In addition to radio recordings for WDR and SWR, numerous CD recordings document his musical work, including the world’s first complete recording of all male-choir works by Max Reger as well as the first recording of the song cycle Hafis by Friedrich Gernsheim. He is an editor of several choral anthologies, a competition juror, and a regular guest, workshop leader, and course instructor at national and international choral festivals, most recently at the International Choral Festival Barcelona (Spain), as part of the Abu Gosh Music Festival in Israel, at the ACDA National Conference in Cincinnati (USA), and at the Festival San Juan Canta (Argentina).