Gustav Meier is known internationally as a teacher of conductors. He has led orchestras around the globe while teaching at the Yale University, the Eastman School of Music, the University of Michigan and the Tanglewood Music Center.

He has conducted the Pittsburgh and China National Symphonies, the Hungarian and Vienna State Opera Orchestras, the Sao Paulo State Symphony, the Chicago’s Grant Park Symphony, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, the Long Beach and Colorado Symphony Orchestras and others. He has led performances at the New York City, Santa Fe, Miami, San Francisco, Zurich and Minnesota Opera Companies. Innovative programming has earned Mr. Meier critical acclaim. He collaborated with film director Robert Altman (Igor Stravinsky’s Rake’s Progress), conducted William Bolcom’s Song of Innocence and Experience (American Premiere), Gian-Carlo Menotti’s Help! Help! The Globolinks! (American Premiere), Elliot Carter’s Double Concerto (First Performance), Chris Rouse’s  Infernal Machine (First Performance) to mention just a few.

Students of his include Marin Alsop (Baltimore Symphony, Cabrillo Festival), Antonio Pappano (Royal Opera Covent Garden, Orchestra Nazionale di Santa Cecilia), Bobby McFerrin, Yakov Kreizberg (First Prize Stokovsky Competition, Netherlands Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony Orchestra), Rico Saccani (First Prize Karajan Competition,Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra), Carl St. Clair (Komische Oper Berlin and Pacific Symphony), Mark Gibson (Cincinnati Conservatory), Jun Märkl (Lyon National Symphony Orchestra), Ben Loeb (International Workshop and Festival) and more.

At present Gustav Meier is on the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory and Music Director of the Greater Bridgeport Symphony Orchestra in Connecticut. Mr. Meier has also received Honory Doctorate Degrees from Fairfield University, Kalamazoo College and Michigan State University. His book The Composer, the Orchestra and the Conductor has just been published by Oxford University Press.