Jost Meier

Jost Meier (born March 15, 1939 in Solothurn ) is a Swiss conductor and composer .

life and career

Growing up in Solothurn, he studied cello at the Conservatory in Biel with Rolf Looser and graduated with a teaching and soloist diploma. He played in various chamber music ensembles, and from 1964 he was a cellist in the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and the Camerata Bern .

Meier worked as a conductor from 1969–1979, according to other sources from 1968–1980, at the Orchestergesellschaft Biel and the music theater there, before moving to the Basel Theater in 1980 as Kapellmeister . He has been a freelance composer and conductor since 1983.

Meier lives in Basel and Arcegno in Ticino .

Works

Stage works

Sennentuntschi , opera in 5 acts based on texts by Hansjörg Schneider (1981/82)
La vie funambulesque , ballet in 4 pictures
The dragon , opera in 3 acts
The zoo bear , chamber opera in 4 pictures, first performance in 1987 for the reopening of the Zurich University of Music
Augustine , opera
Dreyfus - the affair (Libretto: George Whyte, world premiere in coproduction with Theater Basel on May 8, 1994 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin)
Marie and Robert , based on the play by Paul Haller , libretto by Hansjörg Schneider, world premiere in November 2017 in Biel

Honors

Jost Meier has received various prizes for his compositional work and his conducting activities. The ORTF , France's public broadcaster from 1964 to 1974, awarded him the composition prize in 1969. In 1984 he received the Prix du Festival de Lausanne , and one year later the Art Prize of the Canton Solothurn . In 2003 he was honored with the Grand Music Prize of the Canton of Bern .

literature

Hanspeter Renggli: Jost Meier . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1218 f.
Klaus Wloemer: A musician of our time . Christkatholisches Kirchenblatt 15-16 / 2009, p. 2 f.

Individual evidence

↑ Short biography of Jost Meier for the Fête des Vignerons 1999
^ Short biography at the Sinfonietta Basel ( Memento from April 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

Sound recordings with works by the composer from the SRG SSR archive on Neo.Mx3

personal data
SURNAME	Meier, Jost
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 15, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	Solothurn

[1] Short biography of Jost Meier for the Fête des Vignerons 1999

[2] Short biography at the Sinfonietta Basel ( Memento from April 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive )