 In "Fanfare Magazine", Robert Carl commented that he “seems to write pieces of scrupulous craft and exceptional freshness, which makes each seem like an important contribution.” The first recording devoted to his music, released in 2010 by Naxos on its American Classics label, was named one of the CDs of the year in "The New York Times" and in "Fanfare"; new all-Meltzer recordings will issue from Open G Records (2017), Bridge Records (2018), and BMOP/Sound (2019).A Pulitzer Prize Finalist in 2009 for his sextet "Brion", Meltzer has been awarded the Rome Prize, the Barlow Prize;, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and both the Arts and Letters Award in Music and the Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.Among his recent works are "Vision Machine" (2016), commissioned by NewMusicUSA for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra; "Bride of the Island" (2016), a song cycle to poems of Ted Hughes commissioned by the Minnesota Commissioning Club for tenor Paul Appleby and pianist Natalia Katyukova; "Piano Quartet" (2015–16); commissioned by the Boston Chamber Music Society; "Variations on a Summer Day" (2012–16), a song cycle to the Wallace Stevens poem for mezzo-soprano and nine instruments commissioned by the Fromm Foundation for Mary Nessinger and the Maverick Concerts and its director, Alexander Platt; "In Full Sail" (2015, 2017), commissioned by Piano Spheres for Nadia Shpachenko; and "Fortunes" (2015), commissioned by the Roger Shapiro Fund for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.