Meghan Todt Williams

Biography

Meghan Todt Williams is a violinist and educator who performs with orchestras such as the New York Pops, American Composers Orchestra, Little Orchestra Society, American Ballet Theatre, American Symphony Orchestra, and Westchester Philharmonic. Venues at which she has performed include the Metropolitan Opera, Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall and the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, the Rose Hall at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden, the Beacon Theater, Forest Hills Stadium, Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, and Royal Albert Hall in London. She has served as concertmaster for collaborative concerts at McCarter Theatre Center and has performed with a number of popular artists and bands, including Glenn Frey and the Eagles, Roger Daltrey from the Who, Darlene Love and Steven Van Zandt, Andrea Bocelli, Sarah McLachlan, Jason Mraz, Terence Blanchard, and Trace Adkins.

Ms. Williams teaches violin, chamber music, and pedagogy at New York University, where she is a PhD candidate in Music Education and from which she received a Master of Music in Violin Performance. Independently, she maintains a vibrant Suzuki-based studio and co-teaches group classes through Bow & Heart.

Ms. Williams is also an alumna of Princeton University, from which she received a Bachelor of Arts in Music, with certificates in Music Performance and Italian Language and Culture. She was one of the first four Princeton students to attend the Royal College of Music, London for a semester exchange.

In addition to music, Ms. Williams has over twenty years of classical ballet and contemporary dance training. She was the founding Assistant Artistic Director of the Princeton University Ballet Company, and she has enjoyed training as an amateur aerialist.