Nathan meltzer violin bio
Featured Artists: 2023-24 Season
2024-25 Season Featured Artists
Nathan Meltzer, violin
"wonderful playing, supremely polished, ... a stunning album"
Gramophone Magazine, Editor's Choice
There are rare, perfect moments in chamber music where minds meld and hearts coalesce in beautiful synergy. Violinist Nathan Meltzer and pianist Evren Ozel ... attended to every contour of the music with care, crafting a longform melodic idea that flowed effortlessly from phrase to phrase and movement to movement. It was a privilege to witness.
ClevelandClassical
Winner of the 2023 Concert Artist Guild Competition, major prize winner at the 2022 Sibelius and Singapore International Violin Competitions, youngest ever to win the Windsor Festival Competition, and recipient of the Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant, New York City based violinist Nathan Meltzer is establishing a holistic and multi-faceted career as a soloist and chamber musician, with passions for both standard and contemporary repertoire.
Nathan has performed as a soloist with numerous major orchestras, including the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, the Royal Northern Sinfonia, the Finnish RSO, the Helsinki Philharmonic, and the Aalborg, Charlotte, Concepción, Evansville, Indianapolis, Medellín Montréal, and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras, among others, performing across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
As a chamber musician, Nathan has performed at series’ including Parlance Chamber Concerts, Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, Kallos Chamber Music Series, the Terezin Music Foundation, Project Music Heals Us, the Heidelberger Frühling, and Midori’s Partners in Performance, as well as at festivals including ChamberFest Cleveland, Krzyżowa Music, the Moritzburg Festival, the Ravinia Festival, the Perlman Music Program, and the Verbier Festival Academy. He is the Artistic Director Nathan Meltzer will perform on Show 356 on May 15, 2018 in Boston Massachusetts. Nathan performed most recently on Show 355 in New York, New York on April 29, 2018, and has also performed on Show 314 in Orono, ME, and on Show 249 in Carmel, IN. Show 314 bio: Nathan Meltzer, violin, 15, is from New York, New York, where he is in tenth grade at the Professional Performing Arts School, and studies with Li Lin and Itzhak Perlman at the Juilliard Pre-College Division. Nathan has participated in numerous music festivals, academies, and competitions. He first appeared on NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley at age 11 on Show 249 in 2012, recorded in Carmel, Indiana. Nathan has performed in Buenos Aires, Quebec, São Paulo, Tel Aviv, Vienna, and across the U.S., including solo engagements with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Evansville Philharmonic, the Bloomington Symphony, the Muncie Symphony, and the Charlotte Civic Orchestra. Later this fall, he will solo with the Pittsburgh Symphony. Outside of music, Nathan enjoys frisbee, ping-pong, algebra, and exercising. Show 355, New York, New York Show 314, Orono, ME Show 314, Orono, ME Show 249, Carmel, IN Show 356, Boston, MA Show 355, New York, New York First Prize: Nathan Meltzer Second Prize: Jonian Ilias Kadesha Third Prize: Luke Hsu Audience Prize: Nathan Meltzer Then we have Nathan Meltzer’s biography, quote, further photos and video only on this page. Nathan Meltzer [Photo - Nathan Meltzer in performance] Laureate at the 2017 Windsor Festival International String Competition, seventeen-year-old Nathan Meltzer has played solo violin with the Berliner Symphoniker, the Indianapolis Symphony, and the Pittsburgh Symphony, among others, performing in Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Germany, Israel, the U.K., and across the U.S. This season, Nathan joins Omega Ensemble, solos with the Adelphi Orchestra and Ensemble 212, returns to the Charlotte Civic Orchestra and the Orquesta Sinfónica Concepción, and gives recitals at Juilliard, the Neue Galerie, and the 92nd St Y. Highlights of next season include a concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra at Windsor Castle, a return engagement with the Evansville Philharmonic, and recitals at the Walton Gardens in Ischia, Italy. Nathan studies with Itzhak Perlman and Li Lin at Juilliard Pre-College, where he is a Starling scholar. He began his music education in a second-grade orchestra class in Vienna, joined the "Violin Virtuosi" at Indiana University in 2011, and entered the Perlman Music Program in 2013. Nathan has played on NPR’s From the Top, most recently with Mark O’Connor, appeared with The Piano Guys at Carnegie Hall, performed with Gilles Apap, David Chan, and Augustin Hadelich, and taken lessons and masterclasses with Joshua Bell, Pamela Frank, and Jaime Laredo. Nathan plays an 1844 Italian violin by Johannes Pressenda on generous loan from Juilliard. Website: http://www.nathanmeltzer.com Nathan Meltzer, violin
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I. Obsession from the Sonata for Solo Violin, Op. 27, No. 2 by Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931)
Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 8, Op. 30, No. 3, by Ludwig van Beethoven
“Libertango” by Mark O'Connor
Hejre Kati, Scènes de la csárda, No. 4, Op. 32 by Jenö Hubay
III. Scherzo from Piano Quintet No. 2 by Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904)
II. (b) Variazione Finale e Coda from Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
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