Magdalena Meitzner portrait image
Magdalena Meitzner
percussion

German percussionist and composer Magdalena Meitzner made her recording debut at the age of sixteen, playing chamber music at the Bayerischer Rundfunk. Since then she has toured both as a soloist and with ensembles including Kroumata, Norrbotten NEO and CCP, travelling to events in China, Peru, Russia and around Europe, and performing at festivals such as Ruhrtriennale, Ultraschall, Huddersfield, Båstad Kammarmusik Festival and Kalvfestivalen. Magdalena frequently works with various crossover projects involving dance, speech and performance, for example with Fedra/Hippolytos in 2019 at the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm. Magdalena’s duo Hidden Mother (with Ulrik NilIsson) experiments with scenic music and is well known at European avant-garde festivals. In 2020 her duo Wave Dash~ with the flautist Camilla Hoitenga was invited to be ensemble-in-residence at the Robb Composers Symposium in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her latest work as composer is the chamber opera Mimì, which premiered in Stockholm 2021.