Harold Meltzer
Adjunct Assistant Professor (Composition)
Office: Skinner Hall
Phone: (845) 437-7319
Box: 478
Website: http://www.haroldmeltzer.com
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During the 2007-08 season HAROLD MELTZER is Music Alive composer in residence with the Colonial Symphony in New Jersey, which will play three of his works. Other upcoming events are the premieres of Privacy, a piano concerto commissioned by Ursula Oppens and the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, a piano sonata commissioned by Symphony Space for Sara Laimon, and performances by the Vancouver Symphony, John Shirley-Quirk, the Peabody Trio, the Cygnus Ensemble, and the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble. New projects include a second piano concerto, for Sara Laimon and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and a work for the Pacifica Quartet and mezzo-soprano Mary Nessinger. Commissions have come from the American Composers Forum, the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University, the Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music, Concert Artists Guild, Meet the Composer’s Commissioning Music/USA program and its New Music New Donors program, the National Flute Association, the New Jersey Composers Guild, the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, tenor Paul Sperry, and the Westchester Philharmonic. Last season he performed as a harpsichord soloist in his concerto, Virginal, with the American Composers Orchestra at the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia and at Zankel Hall in New York, and as a narrator in his chamber music theater work, Sindbad, in tours with the Peabody Trio and concerts with the Mannes Trio and Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble. Harold's work has been recognized with a Rome Prize, a Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and residencies at the Bellagio Center, the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. Harold graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College, and from King's College, Cambridge. After earning a degree at Columbia Law School and working in New York as a lawyer, he completed a DMA at the Yale School of Music. Ten years ago he helped found the new music ensemble SEQUITUR, and remains co-Artistic Director.