Winner of the 2023 Concert Artist Guild Competition, major prize winner at the 2022 Sibelius and Singapore International Violin Competitions, recipient of the Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant, and youngest ever to win the Windsor Festival Competition, violinist Nathan Meltzer is establishing a holistic and multi-faceted career as both a soloist and chamber musician, with passions for both standard and contemporary repertoire.
Nathan has performed as a soloist with major orchestras around the world. He has performed with the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Royal Northern Sinfonia, the Finnish RSO, the Helsinki Philharmonic, and the Aalborg, Charlotte, Concepción, Indianapolis, Medellín, Montréal, and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras, among others, performing across Europe and North and South America.
As a recitalist and chamber musician, Nathan has performed at celebrated series including the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, the Dresden Musikfestspiele, the Heidelberger Frühling, Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, Kallos Chamber Music Series, Parlance Chamber Concerts, Midori’s Partners in Performance, and the Terezin Music Foundation, and at festivals including ChamberFest Cleveland, IMS Prussia Cove, Krzyzowa Music, Montreal Chamber Music Festival, Moritzburg Chamber Music Festival, Music@Menlo’s International Program, the Ravinia Festival Institute, the Perlman Music Program, and Verbier Festival Academy.
He is also the co-founder and Artistic Director of The Green Room Ensemble, a non-profit chamber music organization dedicated to new music and historically unexplored works by composers from a variety of backgrounds and heritages.
A Juilliard graduate and student of Li Lin and Itzhak Perlman, Nathan plays on a Storioni violin on generous loan from the Rin Collection.
