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Norbert Meyn

Diplom Gesang (HfM Weimar), LGSM, FHEA, FRCM

Norbert Meyn is a singer, vocal and language coach and researcher. 

At the º£½ÇÂÒÂ×¹Ù·½ he teaches repertoire classes (German Lieder) and diction for singers, coaches chamber music and devises performance and research projects. He has also been involved in Masters and PhD supervision.  

Born in Weimar in Germany, Norbert has been living in the UK since 1997. After graduating from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama he performed all over the world, often with vocal ensembles including the New London Consort, The Choir of the Enlightenment and London Voices. As a soloist he has sung with conductors such as Roger Norrington, Simon Halsey, Howard Arman and John Eliot Gardiner and with companies including The Opera Group, Pavilion Opera and The Continuum Ensemble. For 15 years he was a member of the extra chorus of the Royal Opera, Covent Garden. He continues to perform recital and cabaret programmes.

Norbert has been designing and leading a range of practice-based research projects since 2004. His research interests are in the areas of music and migration, 19th and 20th century song and vocal pedagogy. From 2019-2023 Norbert served as Principal Investigator of the interdisciplinary AHRC project . Research outputs include academic articles, research-based performances and recordings, educational videos for singers, recordings, German pronunciation guides for singers. He is director of .  

Norbert is also much in demand as a vocal and language coach for leading choirs and opera companies including the London Symphony Chorus, the BBC Singers, the Bergen Philharmonic Choir, the Netherlands Radio Choir, the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, the Halle Choir in Manchester, the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus and the choir of Trinity College Cambridge. He has also worked as language coach for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Holland Park Opera, Garsington Opera, the Bolshoi Opera, Hyperion Records, Harmonia Mundi and Orfeó Català Barcelona. 

Selected publications

Articles

Meyn N, Grosch N, & Adey P (2023), Foregrounding mobility rather than belonging: a conceptual framework for engaging with music shaped by transnational migration, Acta Musicologica, 95(1), 4-20 []. 

Meyn N (2023), Encounters with the émigré experience: discovering the chamber music and songs of Peter Gellhorn, 'Music and Exile: from 1933 to the Present Day' Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, 22, 217-236 []. 

Meyn N (2021), ‘Music, Migration and Mobility’: an ongoing research project at the º£½ÇÂÒÂ×¹Ù·½, Music & Practice, 9 []. 

Meyn N (2020), Prince Albert and Anglo-German connections in 19th-century music. Angermion: Yearbook for Anglo-German Literary Criticism, Intellectual History and Cultural Transfers, 13(1), 197-212 []. 

Exhibition

Meyn N & Holden M (2023), Music, Migration, and Mobility: The Story of Émigré Musicians from Nazi Europe in Britain, Exhibition held in the RCM Museum 17 January - 21 May 2023 [].

Online resource

Meyn N (2023), Online resource: Music, Migration and Mobility [LINK].

Recordings

Meyn N, Pearson IE, Sun E & Driver D (2021), Robert Kahn: Leaves from the Tree of life, Rubicon Classics RCD1040 []. 

Meyn N & Charlston T (2014), CPE Bach: Spiritual Songs, Toccata Classics TOCC0248 []. 

Watch Norbert's interview with Dame Janet Baker

Faculties / departments: Vocal Studies, Research

Latest Publications

Meyn, N. (2024) In: How Bitter the Savour is of Other’s Bread? International Conference on European Political Refugees in the UK from 1800, 15 November 2024, British Library. (Unpublished)

Meyn, N. and Heath, A. (2024) [Audio]

Holden, M. and Adey, P. and Snyder, B. and Meyn, N. and Grosch, N. (2024) GeoHumanities ISSN 2373-566X (print) 2373-5678 (online)

Meyn, N. and Doutney, D. (2023) RCM Editions, London.

Meyn, N. and Grosch, N. and Adey, P. (2023) Acta Musicologica, 95 (1) pp. 4-20. ISSN 0001-6241 (print) 2296-4339 (online)

Meyn, N. and Holden, M. (2023) [Show/Exhibition]

Meyn, N. (2023) 'Music and Exile: from 1933 to the Present Day' Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, 22 pp. 217-236. ISSN 1388-3720 (print) 1875-8118 (online)

Meyn, N. (2023) Music, Migration and Mobility Online Resource: Émigré Musicians from Nazi Europe

Meyn, N. (2023) [Website]

Meyn, N. and Stanhope, L. and Bower, B. (2023) º£½ÇÂÒÂ×¹Ù·½, London.

Meyn, N. (2021) Music & Practice, 9 ISSN 1893-9562 (online)

Meyn, N. (2021) In: First Annual Midlands Music Research Network Conference, 19-20 April 2021, Online. (Unpublished)

Meyn, N. (2021) Classical Music ISSN 0961-2696 (print) 2632-8208 (online)

Meyn, N. and Pearson, I. E. and Sun, E. and Driver, D. (2021) [Audio]

Meyn, N. (2020) In: Symposium: The Legacy of Migrant Musicians from Nazi Europe in Britain, 3 December 2020, Online. (Unpublished)

Meyn, N. and Stanhope, L. and Bower, B. and Freyhan, M. (2020) RCM Editions, London.

Meyn, N. (2020) Angermion: Yearbook for Anglo-German Literary Criticism, Intellectual History and Cultural Transfers, 13 (1) pp. 197-212. ISSN 1438-2091 (print) 1868-9426 (online)

Meyn, N. and Heher, H. (2020) RCM Editions, London.

Bohm-Duchen, M. and Meyn, N. (2020) In: The Sir John Manduell Research Forum Series, 29 January 2020, Forman Lecture Theatre, Royal Northern College of Music. (Unpublished)

Meyn, N. (2020) Music, Migration and Mobility Online Resource: Émigré Musicians from Nazi Europe

Meyn, N. and Curran, T. and Levi, E. (2020) Music, Migration and Mobility Online Resource: Émigré Musicians from Nazi Europe

Meyn, N. (2019) In: Musica Judaica Symposium: Jewish Music Between Oral and Written Traditions, 14-15 July 2019, Clarendon Institute, Oxford. (Unpublished)

Meyn, N. (2019) In: Two Centuries of Anglo-German Correspondences, 26-28 June 2019, London. (Unpublished)

Meyn, N. (2019) In: German Research Seminar, 6 February 2019, King's College London. (Unpublished)

Meyn, N. and Bower, B. (2019) RCM Editions, London.

Meyn, N. (2019) Music, Migration and Mobility Online Resource: Émigré Musicians from Nazi Europe

Meyn, N. (2019) º£½ÇÂÒÂ×¹Ù·½. (Unpublished)

Meyn, N. and Heller-Jones, C. (2018) Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London. (Unpublished)

Meyn, N. (2018) Arts of the Working Class (3) p. 9. ISSN 2627-6984

Meyn, N. (2018) Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London. (Unpublished)

Meyn, N. (2018) In: Association of Anglican Musicians Conference, 11-14 June 2018, San Antonio, Texas. (Unpublished)

Meyn, N. (2018) Capriol Films.

Meyn, N. and Breinl, J. (2017) In: Workshop, 21-22 October 2017, Austrian Cultural Forum, London. (Unpublished)

Meyn, N. (2017) In: Operá Sans Frontières: Musicians and Migration in a Globalised World, 12 September 2017, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford. (Unpublished)

Curran, T. and Meyn, N. (2017) RCM Editions, London.

Meyn, N. (2017) In: Leo Smit Stichting, 2017, Amsterdam. (Unpublished)

Bower, B. and Meyn, N. and Curran, T. (2016) RCM Editions, London.

Meyn, N. (2015) In: Symposium, 31 May 2015, º£½ÇÂÒÂ×¹Ù·½, London. (Unpublished)

Meyn, N. and Charlston, T. (2014) [Audio]

Meyn, N. (2014) In: Symposium, 21-23 February 2014, º£½ÇÂÒÂ×¹Ù·½, London. (Unpublished)

Meyn, N. (2013) [Website]

Meyn, N. and Charlston, T. and Bavington, P. (2012) The British Clavichord Society Newsletter (54) pp. 3-10. ISSN 1359-5105 (print)

Kelly, J. and Meyn, N. (2011) [Video]

Meyn, N. (2011) ChoraLine.

Meyn, N. (2011) ChoraLine.

Kelly, J. and Meyn, N. (2010) [Video]

Meyn, N. (2010) [Video]

Meyn, N. (2010) [Video]

Meyn, N. (2009) In: Study Day, 13 November 2009, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. (Unpublished)

Connor, M. and Meyn, N. (2009) [Video]

Contact

For enquiries please contact:

Norbert Meyn

Repertoire professor, Speech and Language, Research & Knowledge Exchange Fellow

research@rcm.ac.uk

norbert.meyn@rcm.ac.uk

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