 He graduated from King’s College, Cambridge, MPhil (1990), where he worked with Alexander Goehr, and then completed his musical education at the Yale University School of Music, MMA (1997) and DMA (2000), where he studied composition with Martin Bresnick, Anthony Davis, and Jacob Druckman and harpsichord with Richard Rephann.Meltzer also studied composition privately with Tobias Picker and Charles Wuorinen.More recently he studied piano (2006–08) with Ursula Oppens.