Harold Meltzer

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Harold Meltzer is an American composer, born in Brooklyn in 1966. After graduating from Amherst College, he studied law at Columbia University. He later went on to earn degrees in music at King's College, Cambridge and the Yale School of Music. Meltzer's music has won a number of compositional awards, such as the 2004 Rome Prize, a 2004 Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship. Commissions include piano concertos for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. He currently teaches composition at Vassar College.