Originally from Los Angeles, California, Atticus Mellor-Goldman first moved to Washington D.C. in 2021 after joining the Air Force Strings, and subsequently won a position in “The President’s Own” Marine Chamber Orchestra in 2024.
Mellor-Goldman received his Bachelor’s degree in 2019 from the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University, where he was the recipient of a full-tuition, Presidential Scholarship and studied with Julie Albers, Hans Jensen, and Richard Aaron. He went on to earn his Masters degree from Yale University, where he studied with Paul Watkins and Ole Akahoshi.
He has performed at concert venues around the world and has been featured on NPR’s “From the Top” and American Public Media’s “Performance Today,”. In 2015, his string quartet from Los Angeles was awarded the Gold Medal Prize in the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition’s Junior division. In 2014, he was selected as one of two musicians to act as a “cultural ambassador” for New York University Abu Dhabi. Additionally, he is a past winner of the McDuffie Center for String’s concerto competition.
Mellor-Goldman has been privileged to perform chamber music alongside distinguished artists Osmo Vänskä, Erin Keefe, Edgar Meyer, Ivano Zaneghi, Amy Moretti, Rebecca Albers, Annie Fullard, and Robert McDuffie. His chamber music and orchestral experience includes the prominent summer festivals of Kneisel Hall, Rome Chamber Music Festival, Moritzburg Festival Academy, Sarasota Music Festival, Festival Schiermonnikoog, and the Bowdoin International Music Festival Fellowship Program.
Recent highlights include performing the east coast premiere of Indian American composer Reena Esmail’s work “When the Violin” for solo cello and choir, as well as the world premiere of Grammy award-winning composer Christopher Theofanidis’ Quintet for clarinet and string quartet. Mellor-Goldman also frequently performs in recitals around the DMV area; in particular, with his wife Minji, as a part of Duo BUBU.