Violinist Nathan Meltzer
Sunday, March 2nd, 2025
“wonderful playing, supremely polished, … a stunning album”
Gramophone Magazine, Editor’s Choice
Winner of the 2023 Concert Artist Guild Competition, major prize winner at the 2022 Sibelius and Singapore International Violin Competitions, youngest ever to win the Windsor Festival Competition, and recipient of the Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant, New York City based violinist Nathan Meltzer excels as both a soloist and a chamber musician, with passions for standard and contemporary repertoire. “As with his teacher Itzhak Perlman, Meltzer’s technique is of the sort that rarely draws attention to itself but enables a full expressive command of whatever he is playing.” (Gramophone (UK)) He shares the stage with pianist Wynona Wang, who launched her career after winning the First Prize at the 2018 Concert Artists Guild International Competition in New York City. This duo is brought to us under the auspices of Midori’s Partners in Performance program.
Nathan and Wynona
Winner of the 2023 Concert Artist Guild Competition, major prize winner at the 2022 Sibelius and Singapore International Violin Competitions, youngest ever to win the Windsor Festival Competition, and recipient of the Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant, New York City based violinist Nathan Meltzer is establishing a holistic and multi-faceted career as a soloist and chamber musician, with passions for both standard and contemporary repertoire.
Nathan has performed as a soloist with numerous major orchestras, including the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France, the Royal Northern Sinfonia, the Finnish RSO, the Helsinki Philharmonic, and the Aalborg, Charlotte, Concepción, Evansville, Indianapolis, Medellín Montréal, and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras, among others, performing across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
As a chamber musician, Nathan has performed at series’ including Parlance Chamber Concerts, 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, as well as at festivals including ChamberFest Cleveland, Krzyżowa Music, the Moritzburg Festival, the Ravinia Festival, the Perlman Music Program, and the Verbier Festival Academy. He is the Artistic Director of the Green Room Ensemble, a 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 a Storioni violin on generous loan from the Rin Collection.
Chinese pianist Wynona Yinuo Wang launched her career after winning the First Prize at the 2018 Concert Artists Guild International Competition in New York City. Her recent North America performances include appearances with the Orchestra NOW, The DuPage Symphony Orchestra, the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, the California North State Symphony Orchestra, and the Meadows Symphony Orchestra in Dallas. She has performed in major concert venues as the Sydney Opera House, the Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall, the Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall, the Metropolitan Museum Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, the Merkin Concert Hall in New York City, the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, the Purdue Convocations, the Kravis Center, the California Performing Arts Center, the Whitney Center, the Conrad in La Jolla, and the Dallas Winspear Opera House.
In most recent seasons, Wynona has been presented by the New York Philharmonic’s Artist Spotlight Series, the Shriver Hall Discovery Series, the Myra Hess Memorial Concerts, the Tippet Rise Art Center, the Steinway Society of Western Pennsylvania, the Robbie Collomore Concert Series, and Music Mountain Chamber Music Season. She was invited to perform at festivals including Music@Menlo, La Jolla SummerFest, Mostly Mozart Festival, Bard Music Festival, Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival, International Keyboard Institute and Festival, Piano Texas, the Chautauqua Institution, Morningside Music Bridge in Calgary. She has collaborated in chamber music with artists including Garrick Ohlsson, Gilbert Kalish, Joyce Yang, Inon Barnatan, Kristin Lee, Paul Neubauer, Ani Kavafian, Marcy Rosen, Andres Diaz, Sterling Elliott, and Jordan Bak.
Internationally, she has been a featured soloist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Academic Symphony Orchestra of the National Philharmonic Society of Ukraine, and the Romanian Mihail Jora Philharmonic Orchestra in Italy. She has also given numerous solo piano recitals in China—including cities such as Beijing, Qingdao, Hangzhou, Ordos City, Wuhan, Shenzhen, Kunming, Ningbo, and Dalian—as well as in Spain (Madrid) and Indonesia (Jakarta).
Sun, Mar 2nd, 2025
4:00 p.m.
Orvis Auditorium
University of Hawaii-Manoa
2411 Dole St.
Honolulu, HI 96822
Individual Tickets
$50 General Admission $15 Students
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