Violinist Melissa White has enchanted audiences and critics around the world as both a soloist and a chamber musician. She is a founding member of New York-based Harlem Quartet, with which she has performed and engaged in educational activities throughout the United States, as well as in Europe, Africa, Japan and the United Kingdom, since the quartet’s inception in 2006.

In March 2021 she made her debut with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under Music Director Louis Langrée, and in April 2021 she debuted with the Albany (New York) Symphony Orchestra as soloist in George Tsontakis’s Violin Concerto No. 2 led by Music Director David Alan Miller. Her recent orchestral activity also includes debuts with the Richmond, Baton Rouge, Monroe, Pasadena, Knox-Galesburg and Johnson City symphony orchestras, and return engagements with the National Philharmonic, the Lansing Symphony Orchestra, and the Chicago Sinfonietta.

A first-prize laureate in the Detroit-based Sphinx Competition, Ms. White has performed with such leading U.S. ensembles as the Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Pops, Louisville Orchestra and the Atlanta, Baltimore, Colorado, Detroit and Pittsburgh symphony orchestras.

In fall 2020 she joined the music artist faculty at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. A native of Michigan, she holds performance degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music and New England Conservatory, where her teachers included Jaime Laredo, Ida Kavafian, Donald Weilerstein and Miriam Fried.

Her current instrument, “Matilda,” was commissioned as part of a Sphinx MPower Artist Grant in 2014 by the American violin maker Ryan Soltis. Melissa White is represented worldwide by New York-based Sciolino Artist Management.