Born in Johannesburg, he studied at the University of the Witwatersrand, completing a Bachelor of Music (specialising in composition) before undertaking further musicological studies at the same university with a doctoral thesis on Change and Continuity in the Works of Morton Feldman. Meyer furthered his studies with Younghi Pagh-Paan at the Hochschule für Kunste, Bremen on a DAAD scholarship before going on to study with Diderik Wagenaar, Gilius van Bergeijk and Clarence Barlow at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He has been living and working in Copenhagen, Denmark since 2004.