After making his debut at age 21 with the Hamburg State Opera, conductor and pianist Cornelius Meister has developed an unusually wide range of talents for an artist in the early part of his career. He has become equally familiar in operatic and symphonic repertory and in both mainstream and little-known repertory within each category. In 2009, he made his recording debut backing pianist Konstantin Lifschitz on a recording of Gottfried von Einem's Piano Concerto. In 2017, Meister issued a recording of the rare Dvořák cantata, The Spectre's Bride. Meister remains active as a pianist and has performed chamber music in a clarinet-piano duo with Clemens Trautmann. Meister led the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra on a recording of Hans Werner Henze's opera Das Floß der Medusa in 2023.