Oliwia Meiser - Akademist

Oliwia Meiser, a Polish cellist based in Berlin, is a talented musician with an international career. She studied under Prof. Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt at the University of Music in Weimar and graduated with distinction from the Berlin University of the Arts. Since 2024, she has been an apprentice with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and in 2025 began her concert exam with Prof. Alexey Stadler at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre, as well as a Master’s in Chamber Music (with the Fiestravaganza Ensemble) under Prof. Gregor Sigl (Artemis Quartet)
She has performed at festivals such as Prussia Cove, the Kronberg Academy, the Villars Institute Academy and the Zermatt Music Festival, and has given concerts in venues including the Elbphilharmonie, the Berlin Philharmonie and the Musikverein in Vienna. Oliwia was a member of the LGT Young Soloists (Sony RCA recordings: Nordic Dream, Souvenir) and regularly collaborates with ensembles such as Eroica Berlin and the Dogma Chamber Orchestra.

She has won prizes at numerous competitions, including the Janigro International Competition, TONALi18, the Mendelssohn Competition and the German Music Competition. She has been part of the Pirastro Young Artist Family since 2023.
Oliwia has received scholarships from the DAAD, PE-Förderungen, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Ad Infinitum and Live Music Now Berlin. She is a co-founder of the Ensemble Musica Libera and works as an orchestra coordinator at the Fiestravaganza Academy.
She plays an exceptional Italian cello by Paolo Castello, generously made available to her by a private patron.