holds an undergraduate degree in music with an emphasis on ethnomusicology and viola performance from the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently a graduate student in ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago.  Born in Boston and raised in Wauwatosa, WI, Meredith began her music studies at age 5, as a Suzuki violin student of Sigrid Gullickson at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music.  She later participated in the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra, studied piano with Rita Shur, and then added viola in college as a private student of David Yang.  As a performer, Meredith is most active in chamber music as both a violinist and violist, specializing in late-Romantic, 20th-century and contemporary music.  She has studied chamber performance with David Yang, Beverly Shin, Adela Pena of the Eroica Trio, and the Daedalus Quartet. 

Meredith trained as a Suzuki teacher in 2008 at the Ithaca College Suzuki Institute, studying with Carrie Reuning-Hummel.  She has been teaching violin and viola since 2004, as a private teacher and in after-school programs in Milwaukee, WI and Camden, NJ.  Currently, Meredith teaches violin and viola at HPSI and serves as the director of outreach programs.

As an ethnomusicologist, Meredith primarily focuses on American Jewish popular music of the 20th and 21st centuries, with secondary interests in Irish-American traditional and popular music, music education, music journalism and filmmaking, and community-based/applied research practices.  Since 2009, she has been researching liturgical, traditional and popular music practices of Jewish communities in Philadelphia from the 1920s to the present, attempting to understand the relationship between musical repertory change and communal mobility among urban and suburban neighborhoods.  Meredith is a sometime klezmer violinist and Irish fiddle player.