Oboist Merideth Hite began her Doctoral of Musical Arts degree as a C.V. Starr Fellow of The Juilliard School fall 2009 under the tutelage of Elaine Douvas. In May of that same year, she obtained her Masters of Music degree from Yale University School of Music where she worked with Stephen Taylor. Prior to Juilliard and Yale, Merideth was named a Fulbright Scholar in Baroque and Modern Oboe where she attended the Trossingen Musikhochschule in the black-forest region of Germany. She worked there with British oboe soloist Nicholas Daniel and Baroque oboist of the Netherlands Bach Society, Martin Stadler. Merideth received a Bachelor of Music degree summa cum laude from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 2006 under Mark Ostoich and won the Oboe Concerto Competition there in 2005. Merideth graduated from of the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities in 2002, a pre-professional boarding high school for the arts in Greenville, South Carolina.  

Orchestral experience, both on oboe and English horn, includes the Chamber Orchestra of New York, American Symphony Orchestra, Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Pops, Spoleto Festival Orchestra USA, New Juilliard Ensemble, AXIOM Ensemble (Juilliard), Yale and CCM Philharmonias, Yale Collegium Players, Nutmeg Symphony (CT), Waterbury Symphony (CT), and New Britain Symphony Orchestra (CT).

Notable chamber music performances include numerous appearances during Summer 2009 with New England Winds at Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and with the Divisi Quintet of CCM and others at the Banff Arts Centre.

Merideth hails from Abbeville, South Carolina