VC ARTIST

Winner of the 2023 Concert Artist Guild Competition, violinist Nathan Meltzer is establishing a career as both a soloist and chamber musician adept in both standard and contemporary repertoire.

Nathan is also a major prize winner at the 2022 Sibelius and Singapore International Violin Competitions, recipient of the Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant, and youngest artist to win the Windsor Festival Competition.

Nathan has performed as a soloist with major orchestras around the world — including 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.

As a chamber musician, Nathan has performed with celebrated musicians through series including Parlance Chamber Concerts, the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, 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.

His festival appearances include ChamberFest Cleveland, Krzyzowa Music, Moritzburg Festival, Ravinia Festival Institute, Music@Menlo’s International Program, the Perlman Music Program, and Verbier Festival Academy.

He is also the founding violinist of the Emil Trio, and the Artistic Director of Opus Illuminate, a non-profit chamber music organization dedicated to the works of composers from historically underrepresented communities.

A Juilliard graduate and student of Li Lin and Itzhak Perlman, Nathan plays on a Storioni violin on loan from the Rin Collection.