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Harold Meltzer co-directs Sequitur and teaches composition at Vassar College. 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, and Piano Sonata, commissioned by Brandon Fradd for Symphony Space and pianist Sara Laimon. He was a Finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Music; 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, commissioned by the ASCAP Foundation for tenor Paul Appleby to premiere with the New York Festival of Song in May; and Piano Concerto No. 2 for Sara Laimon and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. In 2010 Naxos will release of disc of his chamber music. www.haroldmeltzer.com
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