About me

Hi, I’m Meghan. I’m a violinist who performs and teaches in New York City and the surrounding areas. I dreamt about doing this for nearly my whole life. But I didn’t take a straightforward path to get here.

There’s so much that I love about life and learning that I studied various subjects to consider different careers. At one point, I thought that I would be a journalist, and I was very interested in Romance languages and literature. (It’s possible that I watched too much Gilmore Girls and too many teen travel movies in the early 2000s.) But music kept drawing me back.

Now, I love performing in many settings and genres, and I love bringing joy to students through lessons that honor diverse interests. Below, you can find my formal bio, or scroll further down to read more about my specialized teaching philosophy and methods.

Bio

Meghan Todt Williams is a violinist and educator who performs with many of the top orchestras in New York City such as the New York Pops, American Composers Orchestra, Little Orchestra Society, American Ballet Theatre, American Symphony Orchestra, and Westchester Philharmonic. She has performed at nearly every major venue in New York City, including 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, Symphony Space, and Forest Hills Stadium. Notable venues at which she has performed throughout the United States and internationally include Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Meyerhoff Hall in Baltimore, Mizner Park Amphitheater in Boca Raton, 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.

As an educator, Ms. Williams maintains a vibrant private studio. She also 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.

For her undergraduate education, Ms. Williams attended 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 enjoys training as an amateur aerialist.

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My teaching

To many, music lessons can seem daunting. Perhaps you learned an instrument as a child and it was ultra-competitive, or you felt like you were always being forced to practice. And now, you want your child to grow up with music, but you want it to be different. Then you’ve come to the right place.

I believe that music can be a holistic and fulfilling part of every person’s life. Yes, instrumental lessons require commitment and dedication. But I envision a world in which all who play music have a healthy relationship with their instrument. I want my students to be able to carry music throughout their lives with agency and joy.

Together, my students and I achieve this through:

• Manageable and clear practice schedules, including weekly check-ins

• Transparency about goals and what it takes to achieve them

• Student-selected pieces/songs in any genre at every level, alongside strong technical work and standard repertoire