Meredi
Biography Meredi
Ina Meredi Arakelian
was born on December 4th, 1992 in Berlin, Germany.
She began piano lessons at the age of six, and at the age of 10 she was accepted to the C.P.E. Bach Musikgymnasium, a performing arts school supported by the Hanns Eisler Music Conservatory in Berlin, Germany. There she continued studying piano and harp, and in the year 2005 she began studying composition at the age of 13. She studied composition with Professor Joylon Brettingham-Smith at the University of the Arts and Music, as well as with Helmut Zapf at the Hanns Eisler Conservatory. She just finished her Bachelor of arts in composition for film and media with Professor Gerd Baumann at the Conservatory of Music in Munich, Germany.
In 2018 she composed the music for the Marcus H. Rosenmüller film „Unheimlich perfekte Freunde“ together with Andrej Melita and Florian Paul and several music for series and television, among others for ARTE and ARD. Her music is played in concerts and on classical radio stations like BR-Klassik.
Her first orchestral pieces were performed in the spring of 2012, and from that point on she has been winning many composition competitions. She won 4 prizes at "Young Composers" Jeunesses Musicales. She won a special prize from the Berlin Philharmonie through the Jeunesses Musicales young composers competition. She won many "Young Composers" competitions in the state of Brandenburg, and won a double prize at the Halberstadt Orchester workshop IMPULS Festival for New Music in 2014.
In 2007 Meredi began to write music for theater plays and movies. Some of her successes include the prize winning film „Find Fix Finish", „The case of Asaria", "FilmFrauen Die Interviews", "All I never wanted", "Step outside", and several more.
In 2020 her debut album STARDUST will be released on Modern Recordings, BMG.