Oliwia Meiser, a Polish cellist based in Berlin, is a versatile and internationally active musician. She studied with Prof. Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar and graduated with honors from the Universität der Künste Berlin. Since 2024, she has been an academist of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, and in 2025 she began her Konzertexamen studies with Prof. Alexey Stadler at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. She has been a member of the Pirastro Young Artist Family since 2023. She is studying a Chamber Music Masters in the UdK Berlin class of Prof. Gregor Sigl (Artemis Quartet).

Oliwia has received artistic guidance from renowned musicians including Gary Hoffman, Arto Noras, Troels Svane, Wen-Sinn Yang, Konstantin Heidrich, Dirk Mommertz, Jens-Peter Maintz, Eberhard Feltz, Frans Helmerson, Natalia Kurzac-Kotula, Jacob Shaw, and members of the Artemis Quartet. From 2017 to 2021, she was a member of the internationally acclaimed string orchestra LGT Young Soloists, contributing to the Sony RCA recordings Nordic Dream and Souvenir. She is also an alumna of the Morningside Music Bridge program.

She has performed at major international festivals including IMS Prussia Cove, Kronberg Academy, Villars Institute Music Academy, and the Zermatt Music Festival. Her concert appearances have taken her to leading venues such as the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Berliner Philharmonie, and the Musikverein in Vienna. As a soloist, she has collaborated with orchestras including the Silesian Philharmonic and the Slovakian String Orchestra, and she is regularly engaged as a substitute with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin.

An active pedagogue, Oliwia has been featured as faculty at the 2025 and 2026 editions of the Fiestravaganza International Music Academy (UdK Berlin). Furthermore, her pre-college students have achieved success on both national and international stages. She has also served as a jury member of the German National Youth Competition (Jugend musiziert).

Oliwia is a laureate of numerous competitions, including first prizes at the International Janigro Competition 2016 and the TONALI Cello Competition 2018. She has also received chamber music awards at the Alice-Samter Competition and the Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Competition of German Universities. Further distinctions include the Artist-in-Residence Award at the Szczecin Classic Festival 2021 and semifinalist prizes at the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb 2021 and the Robert Schumann Chamber Music Competition 2022.

Her artistic work has been supported by scholarships from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), PE-Förderungen e.V., the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, the Ad Infinitum Foundation, Musethica e.V., and Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Berlin e.V., recognizing both her artistic excellence and her commitment to social engagement through music. Oliwia is a scholarship holder of the Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz and frequents in the activities of the programme.

She is a co-founder of the Ensemble Musica Libera and serves as orchestra coordinator for the Fiestravaganza International Music Academy in Berlin. She is actively involved in the TONALi network and collaborates closely with TONALi gGmbH in Hamburg. Oliwia regularly performs with ensembles such as Eroica Berlin and Camerata Fiestravaganza.

She plays an exceptional Italian cello by Paolo Castello, generously loaned by a private sponsor.