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Anne Akiko Meyers Anne Akiko Meyers is recognized as one of today's most inspiring and sought after violinists for her impassioned performances and mastery of a wide-ranging selection of music. Hailed by critics, media, conductors and audiences worldwide, she has continually sold out performances of classical standards and new music. Her passionate and enchanting communication to audiences of all ages has inspired composers to specifically write works for her rendition. One of the world's top soloists, recitalists and chamber musicians, she has been a regular guest at some of the most prestigious orchestras and venues including Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, Tanglewood, BBC Scottish Symphony, Boston Symphony, London's Philharmonia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, l'Orchestre de Paris, Minnesota Orchestra, Montreal Symphony, Moscow Philharmonic, National Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo's NHK Symphony, Toronto Symphony and the Vienna Symphony. An avid supporter of contemporary composers, she has premiered works by David Baker, John Corigliano, Nathan Currier, Roddy Ellias, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Jennifer Higdon, Arvo Part, Manuel Ponce, Somei Satoh, Teddy Shapiro, Joseph Schwantner, and Ezequiel Viñao. This coming season, Ms. Meyers will return to the Warsaw Philharmonic and perform with the Jerusalem Symphony, Leon Botstein conducting. She will return to the Miyazaki Festival and tour Holland with the North Netherlands Orchestra performing the Beethoven Concerto with specially written cadenzas by DJ/electronica/composer, Mason Bates. She will also return to California for several performances, among others. Ms. Meyers' dynamic and compelling music making has catapulted her to the top of her generation. At the age of 11, she was featured, twice, on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson. At 15, she joined the Young Concert Artists roster. At 23, she was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, the only artist to be the sole recipient of this annual award. Today she performs around the globe as a featured soloist with the most recognized names in classical music and has performed for dignitaries including the Emperor and Empress of Japan. Her extensive discography can be found on the Avie, Camerata, Hyperion, Naxos, RCA Victor Red Seal and RPO labels. Her debut disc, at the age of 18, included the Barber Violin Concerto and the Bruch Violin Concerto No.1 with Christopher Seaman and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. RPO Records recorded the sonatas of Saint-Saëns and Fauré. Her RCA catalogue is comprehensive and includes Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole and Bruch's Scottish Fantasy with Jesus Lopez-Cobos and the Royal Philharmonic; the Franck and Strauss sonatas; the Mendelssohn Concerto and a selection of other works with Andrew Litton and the Philharmonia Orchestra and Prokofiev Violin Concertos with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony under Dmitri Kitajenko. Sonata albums include Salut d'Amour featuring many encore pieces with classic Japanese folksongs and an album featuring works by Copland, Ives, Piston, and David Baker with pianist André-Michel Schub. She recently recorded works by Debussy, Messiaen, Ravel, Satoh and Takemitsu for the AVIE label. Two works written expressly for Ms. Meyers include a live performance of the Somei Satoh Violin Concerto with Tetsuji Honna and the Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra on the Camerata label and 'Angelfire' by Pulitzer-prize winning composer Joseph Schwantner with Andrew Litton and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra on Hyperion. Naxos also released a performance of Jennifer Higdon's piano trio, featuring Ms. Meyers, live from the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival. Ms. Meyers' numerous television credits include an A&E Network telecast from the Casals Festival with the Montreal Symphony and Krzysztof Penderecke, a PBS broadcast with the Boston Pops Orchestra and John Williams and her appearances on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson and the "Emmy Award Show" attracted national attention. She was also featured performing with Keith Lockhart and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Holland that attracted an audience of 10,000 and was globally broadcast live on the Internet. She also performed in front of 750,000 people in Sydney, Australia's Harbour, celebrating their 250th Bicentennial. She has been featured in numerous print and television commercials including being selected to be photographed by Annie Leibovitz for the Anne Klein "Women of Substance" fashion campaign that appeared in magazines around the world. She has been on many magazine covers, most recently featured in the popular UK-based magazine, Muso. Ms. Meyers studied with Alice and Eleanore Schoenfeld at the Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles, Josef Gingold at Indiana University, and Felix Galimir, Masao Kawasaki and the late Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School. She performs on the "Royal Spanish" Antonius Stradivarius violin, dated 1730, that once belonged to the King of Spain and endorses Thomastik-Infeld Vision Titanium strings. An active participant in community outreach programs across the US and Japan, she has given numerous masterclasses, been a panelist at the Juilliard hosted Starling-DeLay Symposium and has been an adjudicator at several competitions. Website:
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