Season Soloists
SoHyun Ko
SoHyun Ko is a 17 year-old violinist currently studying with Pinchas Zukerman and Patinka Kopec at the Manhattan School of Music. She began learning the violin at the age of 3. From 2015-2016, SoHyun spent the year as a student at the Korea National Institute for the Gifted in Arts.
In 2014, the Stiftung Mozarteum in Austria invited 8-year-old SoHyun to Salzburg to play on Mozart's original violin at the Mozart Wohnhaus. The Austrian National Television (ORF) then broadcasted her performance throughout Europe for three consecutive days.
At 9 years old, SoHyun met famed violinist Pinchas Zukerman; which would turn out to be an encounter that quickly blossomed into the present day where she continues studying under his direction. In 2016, they performed the Bach concerto for two violins side-by-side in Korea. In 2018, SoHyun was reunited in performance with Zukerman at Cadogan Hall in London where she performed the Mendelssohn violin concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Zukerman himself.
As an attendee of the Heifetz International Music Institute, SoHyun has been awarded full scholarship every year since 2018 when she first attended. Later on in 2019, SoHyun moved to New York City to attend the Manhattan School of Music Precollege.
Prior to SoHyun's US participation in the Adelphi Orchestra's Sixteenth Annual Young Artist Competition, her many accomplishments include first prizes at numerous competitions. Additionally, In 2020, SoHyun was the only Korean to perform in a charity concert “The Call to Unite” which raised money towards COVID-19 relief efforts. The event included 200 celebrities ranging from former U.S. President George W. Bush, broadcaster Oprah Winfrey, musician Quincy Jones, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Recently in 2021, SoHyun was selected to perform for a Korean promotional video hosted by the Korea Tourism Organization.
Nathan Meltzer
Nathan Meltzer will return for his fifth appear with the Adelphi Orchestra to celebrate our 70th Anniversary.
Major prize winner at the 2022 Sibelius and Singapore International Violin Competitions, youngest ever to win the Windsor Festival Competition, and recipient of the Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant, violinist Nathan Meltzer is establishing a holistic and multi-faceted career as a soloist and chamber musician, with passions for both standard and contemporary repertoire.
Nathan has performed as a soloist with numerous major orchestras, including the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, the Royal Northern Sinfonia, the Finnish RSO, the Helsinki Philharmonic, and the Aalborg, Berlin, Charlotte, Concepción, Evansville, Indianapolis, Medellín, and Pittsburgh orchestras, among others, performing across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
As a chamber musician, Nathan has performed with celebrated musicians through the Parlance Chamber Concerts, Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, Kallos Chamber Music Series, the Terezin Music Foundation, Project Music Heals Us, the Heidelberger Frühling, and Midori’s Partners in Performance, as well as at festivals including ChamberFest Cleveland, Krzyżowa Music, the Moritzburg Festival, the Ravinia Festival, the Perlman Music Program, and the Verbier Festival Academy. He is also the Artistic Director of Opus Illuminate, a non-profit chamber music organization dedicated to the works of composers from historically underrepresented communities.
A Juilliard graduate and student of Li Lin and Itzhak Perlman, Nathan plays a Storioni violin on generous loan from the Rin Collection. Visit nathanmeltzer.com for more information.
Hyerin Ella Eom
17 year-old violinist Hyerin Ella Eom was born in South Korea and moved to Palisades Park, New Jersey at the age of 6. In 2019, she was accepted into the Pre-College program at Juilliard, where she is now co-taught by Elizabeth Chang and her teacher from the former years, Soo Yeon Kim, and has served as the concertmaster of the Juilliard Pre-College Symphony.
As a soloist, Hyerin garnered top prizes at local and international competitions, such as the first prizes at the 2021 IGMC, the 2021 Bravura Philharmonic Concerto Competition, the 2023 Adelphi Young Artists Competition in senior division, an alternate in the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra Korngold Violin Concerto Competition in 2022, and was a semifinalist in the Stulberg International String Competition 2023. She is also a 2024 YoungArts Winner. She attended Mozarteum Summer Festival in 2019 as a young artist under the tutelage of Pierre Amoyal and attended Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in the summer of 2021 and 2022.
Hyerin is an avid chamber musician as well, and is one of the violinists of the FaMa Quartet, which won 2nd place in the 2022 Coltman Chamber Music Competition junior division and recently won the Gold Medal at the 2023 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition junior strings division.
In her free time, Ella enjoys snowboarding in the winter and spending time with family and friends.