News | Harold Meltzer, composer

"Classical Post" names "Songs and Structures" the likely Grammy winner for Best Classical Compendium (22 Jan 2020)

“Concise, colorful, and playful, this recording of Meltzer’s recent vocal and chamber works from the Metropolitan Opera Tenor Paul Appleby is sophisticated and technically accomplished.”

"Songs and Structures" nominated for Best Classical Compendium (20 Nov 2019)

Harold Meltzer has been nominated for a 2020 GRAMMY® Award in the category “Best Classical Compendium” for his album Songs and Structures, available on Bridge Records.

A Field Guide to ‘Songs and Structures’

Dacia Clay interviews Harold for Second Inversion on KING FM about his album Songs and Structures

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Peabody Conservatory Welcomes Harold Meltzer

The Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University will welcome Harold Meltzer to its composition faculty for the 2019-20 academic year.

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Songs and Structures, released November 2018 on Bridge Records

“Best Contemporary Music Recording of 2018” – Voix des Arts

Harold’s new disc on Open G Records, Variations on a Summer Day & Piano Quartet is reviewed in The San Francisco Chronicle, The Wall Street Journal, Opera News, Voix des Arts, Fanfare, American Record Guide.

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Second Inversion

Harold Meltzer on Music and Skyscrapers: Dacia Clay interviews Harold on Second Inversion

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Harold’s CD on Open G Records Makes Fanfare Want List

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Variations on a Summer Day

The 2016 Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood features the first performance of Harold’s completed Variations on a Summer Day, by the Tanglewood Music Fellows, in Lenox, Massachusetts. Learn more »

New York Festival of Song

For the week of July 18, 2016, Harold will be the guest curator of the New York Festival of Song’s “Song of the Day” column.

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