Matthias Meyer

Matthias Meyer (*1997) is a drummer and composer from Berlin. After first starting out on the saxophone, he fell in love with the drums at the age of 11. In 2015, he started his studies in music and politics at the conservatory of Hannover. Motivated by his teacher at the time, Eva Klesse, he moved to Berlin to enroll at the Jazz Institute Berlin in 2019. During his time in Berlin, Meyer got more and more into composing for his own projects Niemandsland and Nomadia, with which he has been playing concerts in various venues and festivals across Germany and Europe. In 2023, he moved to New York to start his master’s degree at the City College of New York with a DAAD scholarship. He has had the chance to study with Heinz Lichius, Eva Klesse, Heinrich Köbberling, Peter Weniger, Marc Mühlbauer, David Friedman and Carl Allen. Meyer was awarded the JIB-Jazz-Prize by the Karl Hofer Society and won the Young Munich Jazzprize with his band Niemandsland. Their debut album was recorded in 2023 and will be released in January 2025 as part of the Jazzthing-Next Generation series.