Anne Akiko Meyers is one of the world’s premiere concert violinists. A celebrated soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and educator, Meyers is remarkable for her creative diversity, collaborating with world-class musicians from both the classical and popular worlds, premiering and commissioning new works, and showcasing under-performed or rarely heard works.
In the 2010/11 season, Ms. Meyers performs the Mozart G Major Concerto, with cadenzas composed for her by Wynton Marsalis, with the St. Louis and Grand Rapids symphony orchestras. She appears with other orchestras throughout the US, and tours nationally to promote her highly-anticipated album, “The Seasons…Dreams” on E1 Records (September 2010, release date.) The recording follows up her latest critical and popular success, “Smile”, released in early 2009. Internationally, Ms. Meyers returns to the Osaka Philharmonic and the Dusseldorf Symphoniker.
In 2009/10 Meyers appeared with the BBC Scottish Symphony, the City of Birmingham Symphony, the Osaka Philharmonic, and the Toronto Symphony, among other orchestras. She performed recitals throughout the US, and toured nationally with jazz trumpeter Chris Botti, and pop-opera sensation Il Divo for special holiday concerts.
Since making her debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at age 11, Meyers has made regular appearances with the major orchestras of the world, including the Boston Symphony, Montreal Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Tokyo’s NHK Symphony and many others. A passionate advocate of expanding the repertoire, Meyers has premiered works by composers including David Baker, Mason Bates, Jakub Ciupinksi, John Corgliano, Roddy Ellias, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Jennifer Higdon, Wynton Marsalis, Oliver Messiaen, Akira Miyoshi, Arvo Pärt, Manuel Ponce, Somei Satoh and Joseph Schwantner.
Meyers’ extensive discography is available on the Avie, Camerata, Hyperion, Koch, Naxos, RVA Victor Red Seal, RPH, Sony BMG and Warner Classics labels. Her debut disc, released when she was 18, includes the Barber Violin Concerto and Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1, with Christopher Seaman and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Other notable recordings include the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with Andrew Litton and the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Prokofiev Concertos with the Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt, Somei Satoh’s “Kisetsu” and the Joseph Schwantner “Angelfire” fantasy for amplified violin and orchestra, both written for and premiered by Meyers.
Television credits include an A&E telecast from the Casals Festival with the Montreal Symphony, a PBS broadcast with the Boston Pops Orchestra and John Williams and appearances on “The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson and the "Emmy Award Show". Meyers was featured in a performance with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Holland that attracted an audience of 10,000 and was live-streamed online around the world, and performed in front of 750,000 people in Sydney, Australia's Harbour, celebrating their 250th Bicentennial. Meyers has performed for dignitaries including the Emperor and Empress of Japan and has been featured in numerous print and television commercials, including Anne Klein’s “Women of Substance” fashion campaign photographed by Annie Leibovitz and appearing in magazines around the world.
Born in San Diego, California, Anne Akiko Meyers began her studies at the age of four. She was a student of Alice and Eleonore Schoenfeld at the Colburn School of Performing Arts, Josef Gingold at Indiana University, and Felix Galimir, Masao Kawasaki and Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School. At age 23, Meyers was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, the only artist ever to be the sole recipient of this annual prize.
In the fall of 2009, Meyers was named Professor of Violin at the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2008, she was the first violinist to be a Regent’s Lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles. Meyers was a panelist at the Juilliard School’s Starling-DeLay Symposium and has given masterclasses around the world. Anne plays the “Royal Spanish” Stradivarius, dated 1730 and formerly owned by the King of Spain.
