Anne Akiko Meyers: Bio
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This September, E1 Records releases the hightly anticipated 'Seasons...dreams', which will feature world premieres and music with harp and piano. This release is on the heels of her hightly successful album 'Smile', which charted on Billboard. In the 2010-2011 season, Meyers will tour nationally to promote 'The Seasons...Dreams' and perform with the Austin Symphony, Grand Rapids Symphony, Pasadena Symphony and St. Louis Symphony. In Grand Rapids and St.Louis, she will perform Mozart's G Major Concerto with cadenzas composed for her by Wynton Marsalis. Internationally, Anne Akiko Meyers will return to the Osaka Philharmonic and Dusseldorf Symphoniker.
This past season, Meyers toured with singing sensations, Il Divo, celebrating a special Christmas collaboration in Atlantic City, Boston, Connecticut and Toronto and toured with jazz trumpeter Chris Botti in Florida, New Jersey, North Carolina, Maine and South Carolina. Internationally, Meyers performed with the Osaka Philharmonic, U.K.'s Birmingham Symphony, the BBC Scottish Symphony and the
Toronto Symphony.
Meyers' extensive discography can be found on the Avie, Camerata, Hyperion, Koch, Naxos, RCA Victor Red Seal, RPO, Sony BMG and the Warner Classics 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. View her discography on Amazon & Itunes.
Meyers has been a regular guest at some of the most prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw, the Hollywood Bowl, Lincoln Center, Suntory Hall and the Sydney Opera House. She has been the featured soloist with the Boston Symphony, London's Philharmonia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Minnesota Orchestra, Montreal Symphony, Moscow Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo's NHK Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Vienna Symphony and the
Warsaw Philharmonic.
She has premiered a number of works by composers such as David Baker, Mason Bates, Jakub Ciupinski, John Corigliano, Roddy Ellias, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Jennifer Higdon, Wynton Marsalis, Olivier Messiaen, Akira Miyoshi, Arvo Part, Manuel Ponce, Somei Satoh,
and Joseph Schwantner.
Meyers' television credits include an A&E Network telecast from the Casals Festival with the Montreal Symphony, a PBS broadcast with the 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 in a performance with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Holland that attracted an audience of 10,000 and was globally broadcast live on the Internet. Meyers also performed in front of 750,000 people in Sydney, Australia Harbor , celebrating their 250th Bicentennial and has performed for dignitaries including the Emperor and Empress of Japan. Meyers has been featured in numerous print and television commercials including Anne Klein's Woman Of Substance" fashion campaign that appeared in magazines around the world and was photographed by Annie Leibovitz.
Starting her studies at age 4, she first performed with a local orchestra at the age of 7, then burst into prominence at age 11, when she twice performed on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson and appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The following year she made her New York Philharmonic debut with Zubin Mehta conducting. She was soon performing throughout the United States, Japan, Australia and Europe and by the time her debut disc of the Barber and Bruch violin concertos with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra was released at age 18, she was recognized as one of the stars
of her generation.
Meyers was born in San Diego, California and grew up in the Los Angeles area before heading to New York. She studied with 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, she was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, the only artist to be the sole recipient of this annual prize.
In the fall of 2009, she 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 has given masterclasses around the world, was a panelist at the Juilliard hosted Starling-DeLay Symposium and is an adjudicator
for competitions.
Anne performs on the "Royal Spanish" Antonio Stradivarius violin, dated 1730, that once belonged to the King of Spain.
Track Listing
| 1 | Charles Chaplin: Smile | |
| 2 | Arvo Part: Spiegel Im Spiegel | |
| 3 | Astor Piazzolla: Introducccion Et Angel | |
| 4 | Astor Piazzolla: Milonga En Re/Tango | |
| 5 | Olivier Messiaen: Fantasie | |
| 6 | Franz Schubert: Fantasy, Op 159: I | |
| 7 | Franz Schubert: Fantasy, Op 159: II | |
| 8 | Franz Schubert: Fantasy, Op 159: III | |
| 9 | Franz Schubert: Fantasy, Op 159: IV | |
| 10 | Michio Miyagi: Haru No Umi | |
| 11 | Rentaro Taki: Kojo No Tsuki | |
| 12 | Harold Arlen: Somewhere Over The Rainbow |
Anne Akiko Meyers: Audio
| Claude Debussy: Clair de Lune |