MEREDI is a German/Armenian internationally acclaimed composer, producer and pianist based in Berlin and Los Angeles.
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 (among others Top 10 Post-Classical Albums of 2020 BBC Music Magazine’).
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, ‘Monopol” (Berlin), or the Berlin Fashion Week. She was the first artist ever to give a concert in the Santa Prisca church in Taxco, Mexico. In June 2024, Deutsche Grammophon announced the signing of an exclusive agreement with Meredi, as well as her first release on the label.
FACTS
1. You can’t look up at the sky too often.
2. A piano keeps the energy of every person who has ever played on it.
3. Only gravity keeps you from flying.
1. What is the biggest inspiration for your music?
longing.
2. How and when did you get into making music?
I never had a life without music. I was always obsessed with it since I am small. It was and is my escape, my shelter, the air I breath. I must have been about 3 years old when we had an old piano in our living room that I could never pass by without playing. My mom says I was too small to even see the keys. She caught me standing in front of the piano, playing my melodies, trying to touch the keys from down there. I consciously started composing while I learned how to speak. It is still the most intuitive way for me to speak.
3. What are 5 of your favourite albums of all time?
Linkin Park – Minutes to Midnight
Bullet for my Valentine – The Poison
30 Seconds to Mars – A Beautiful Lie
Röyksopp – Profound Mysteries III
M83 – Fantasy
4. What do you associate with Berlin?
dirt, freedom, confusion, constant change, authenticity, heavy history, home, childhood trauma.
5. What’s your favourite place in your town?
Grunewald, underground train, the lakes around Berlin.
6. If there was no music in the world, what would you do instead?
not existing.
7. What was the last record/music you bought or listen?
Lykke Li’s new album.
8. Who would you most like to collaborate with?
M83
9. What was your best gig (as performer or spectator)?
Every concert is special, but the best concert I ever had was at Zenner Berlin in autumn 2023. I played my new pieces, I sang and played the synthesizers and my friend Philipp Johann Thimm accompanied me on the cello and live electronics. We spontaneously expanded the last piece as the room was full of energy and longing and I could feel how everyone was drifting away with us. It was unforgettable.
10. How important is technology to your creative process?
It helps me.
11. Please tell us a bit more about the making of your new EP ‘Flourish’.
Flourish came to me when I went on a journey to find home. It’s a diaspora story. The main melody is inspired by byzantine chanting and runs through each track, searching for its place. It can be clearly heard in Double Sky, which is the core of the mini-album. Double Sky is a monologue directed to my two homelands Germany and Armenia, sung in the form of a romantic love relationship. It’s a diaspora story that unfolds over 400 years, from Armenia, to Iran, to Germany. I mostly composed it in the airplane between homes, a place where one sky becomes two.
