Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York
7 pm ET
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Nathan Meltzer. (Image: Tam Lan Truong)
Nathan Meltzer: Of String and Wood
The violinist plays music spanning 80 years of music from the Americas.
7 pm ET
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York
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Overview
Registration will open to the public one month before the event. Tickets are free. Email music@as-coa.org with any questions.
Americas Society members can register at any time and enjoy early and reserved seating at the event. Not a member? Join today! Contact membership@as-coa.org for more info.
Violinist Nathan Meltzer has been praised for his "dazzling technique" (Boston Musical Intelligencer) and "gorgeous, dreamlike playing" (Seen and Heard International). Among his various prizes and honors as a rising estimable soloist, chamber, and concerto artist are those at 2022 Sibelius and Singapore International Violin Competitions, first prize at the Windsor Festival Competition, and a Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant, in addition to the distinction of joining the Concert Artists Guild roster in 2023.
This concert is the first collaboration between Music of the Americas and Concert Artists Guild (CAG), an organization that empowers musicians and launches careers that are sustainable, unique, and relevant. Through performances, professional development initiatives, and invaluable mentorship on a wide range of invaluable extra-musical topics, CAG identifies and develops young artists who will make an impact in the world through music, bridging the gap between training and a vibrant professional life for these rising stars of the concert world.
Program
- Roque Cordero (1917–2008): Sonatina (1946)
- Adagio - Allegro con spirito
- Largo e recitativo
- Allegro moderato e burlesco
- Aliayta Foon-Dancoes (b. 1994): Liminal Drift (2021)
- inti figgis-vizueta (b. 1993): earthmaker (2020)
- Eleanor Alberga (b. 1949): The Wild Blue Yonder (1995)
- Intermission -
- Gabriela Ortiz (b. 1964): De cuerda y madera (2024)
- Claude Vivier (1948–1983): Pièce pour violon et piano (1975)
- Alberto Ginastera (1916–1983): Pampeana No. 1, Op. 16 (1947)
Performers
Nathan Meltzer, violin
Zhu Wang, piano
In collaboration with
About the Artists
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 multifaceted career as both a soloist and chamber musician, with passions for both standard and contemporary repertoire.
Meltzer 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, North Carolina, 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, Dresden Musikfestspiele, Heidelberger Frühling, Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, Kallos Chamber Music Series, Parlance Chamber Concerts, and Midori’s Partners in Performance, and at festivals including ChamberFest Cleveland, IMS Prussia Cove, Krzyzowa Music, La Jolla SummerFest, Montreal and Moritzburg Chamber Music Festivals, Music@Menlo’s International Program, Newport Classical, the Ravinia Festival Institute, the Perlman Music Program, Verbier Festival Academy, and Yellow Barn.
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.
Concert Artists Guild enables artists to manifest a new definition of a professional musician: resilient citizen performers who engage with, respond to, and impact the world around them through music and service, galvanizing the fabric of society through the power of culture.
It has served as the launching pad for an extraordinary list of top-flight classical trained musicians including singers Martina Arroyo and Shirley Verrett, violinist Jennifer Koh, flutist Caire Chase, the Parker String Quartet, PubliQuartet, Imani Winds, Brasil Guitar Duo, and Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, and celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2026. Each season CAG offers CAG in NYC, a performance series to showcase its roster artists.
Funders
The MetLife Foundation Music of the Americas concert series is made possible by the generous support of Presenting Sponsor MetLife Foundation.
The 2025–2026 series is also supported, in part, by the Howard Gilman Foundation, Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University.
