Michael Meyer - Biography#

Michael Meyer was born in Zurich in 1986 and studied musicology and history at the University of Zurich and organ at the Zurich University of the Arts. He completed his doctorate at the University of Zurich in 2014 with a thesis on the German reception of Josquin in the 16th century. At the end of 2019, he was awarded the venia legendi for musicology at the University of Zurich; his habilitation thesis deals with music history culture in Vienna around 1900. From December 2010 to September 2014, he was a research assistant, and from October 2014 to March 2020, he was assistant and senior assistant at the Musicology Institute of the University of Zurich in the chair of Prof. Dr. Laurenz Lütteken. From March 2020 to spring 2021, he worked as a member of the management of Orgelbau Kuhn AG in Männedorf, and in the spring semester of 2020 he took on a lectureship at the University of Bern as a substitute for Prof. Dr. Cristina Urchueguía. In the summer semester of 2021, Michael Meyer assumed the professorship for historical musicology at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen. In addition, he continues to be involved as organist at the Guthirtkirche in Zurich, where he has been active since 2010.