Music

Faculty

Composition

B.A., summa cum laude, Amherst College; M.Phil., Cambridge University; J.D., Columbia University School of Law; M.M.A., D.M.A., Yale School of Music.

Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1966, Harold Meltzer is a composer and co-directs the ensemble Sequitur. Recent works include Privacy, a piano concerto commissioned and premiered at Walt Disney Concert Hall by Ursula Oppens and the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group; Piano Sonata, commissioned by Brandon Fradd for Symphony Space and pianist Sara Laimon; and Brion, a chamber work commissioned for the Cygnus Ensemble by the Barlow Endowment at Brigham Young University. Brion was a Finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. Other recognition of his work includes the Rome Prize, a Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2008 Barlow Prize, which involves a string quartet commission for the Avalon, Lydian, and Pacifica Quartets. Other current projects are Buste for string orchestra, commissioned by the Argosy Foundation for the Colonial Symphony; Beautiful Ohio, a song cycle commissioned by the ASCAP Foundation for tenor Paul Appleby to premiere with the New York Festival of Song in May 2010; and Piano Concerto No. 2 for Sara Laimon to perform with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP). In January 2010 BMOP will perform and record Privacy with Ursula Oppens, adding to it Piano Concerto No. 2 for future release. In 2010 Naxos will release a disc of his chamber music.