This concert is the North Carolina Symphony debut for Nathan Meltzer.

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

He has performed with the Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Medellín Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Aalborg, Charlotte, Universidad de Concepción, Indianapolis, Montréal, and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras, among others, performing across Europe and North and South America.

As a recitalist and chamber musician, Meltzer has performed at series including the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, the Dresden Music Festival, 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, Krzyżowa-Music, Montreal Chamber Music Festival, Moritzburg Chamber Music Festival, Music@Menlo’s International Program, the Ravinia Steans Music 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 graduate of The Juilliard School and student of Li Lin and Itzhak Perlman, Meltzer plays on a Storioni violin on generous loan from the Rin Collection.