Meister studied piano and conducting at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover.
Meister also studied music at the Salzburg Mozarteum, with such teachers as Dennis Russell Davies and Karl Kamper.
[3] With the Vienna RSO, he has commercially recorded music of Gottfried von Einem and Béla Bartók.
[7] In April 2024, Meister announced that he is to stand down as GMD in Stuttgart at the close of his current contract in 2026.
[8] Outside of Europe, Meister made his US conducting debut with San Francisco Opera in September 2009.