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Performances > Visionary Sound > Artist Information - Anne Akiko-Meyers
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. The New York Times hailed Ms. Meyers's artistry as "playing that flows from the heart" and music that was "unspooled with impressive refinement, emotional freedom and tonal depth." The Minneapolis-St. Paul Pioneer Press said, “her breakneck brilliance completed an awe-inspiring interpretation.” The Philadelphia Inquirer summed up her playing as "deeply poetic." The Cleveland Plain Dealer wrote, “…the performance wove a magical spell that took the audience to another sonic realm.” An active recitalist and deeply committed chamber musician, she has been a regular guest at the Aspen Music Festival, Beijing Music Festival, Hollywood Bowl, Ishikawa Music Festival, Mainly Mozart, Miyazaki Music Festival, Moritzburg Festival, Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, Seattle Chamber Music Society, SummerFest La Jolla, Tanglewood, and Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival. An avid supporter of contemporary music, she has premiered a number of works by composers such as Nathan Currier, Roddy Ellias, Jennifer Higdon, Somei Satoh, Teddy Shapiro, Joseph Schwantner, and Ezequiel Viñao. A native of California of American and Japanese heritage, Ms. Meyers’ dynamic and compelling music making has catapulted her to the top of her generation. At the age of 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. Ms. Meyers’ current musical activities include a Lincoln Center performance of the Manuel Ponce Concerto with Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra, a return to the Netherlands with the North Netherlands Orchestra, a return to the Gran Canaria Symphony performing the Hartmann Concerto, a recital in Bergamo, Italy and televised performances with the Slovenian Philharmonic with George Pehlivanian conducting. In the United States, Ms. Meyers has return engagements with the Colorado Symphony with Peter Oundjian, Florida Orchestra with Stefan Sanderling and the Minnesota Orchestra with Andrew Litton. Ms.Meyers celebrated Suntory Hall's 19th anniversary with the New Japan Philharmonic, toured Japan and Korea with the Hiroshima Symphony, made a guest appearance with the BBC Scottish Symphony performing Bernstein's 'Serenade' which was broadcast on Britain's Radio 3, and performed with the Rochester Philharmonic featuring the 'Chaccone' from John Corigliano’s film score, The Red Violin, a score she will repeat this year in Colorado and California. Ms. Meyers has appeared with an outstanding number of American orchestras such as (partial list): the Baltimore Symphony, Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, National Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony, and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Global demand has led to appearances and tours with (partial list) the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Buenos Aires’ Teatro Colon Symphony, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Hamburg Symphony, the Montreal Symphony, the Moscow Philharmonic, the Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, l’Orchestre de Paris, the Polish National Radio Symphony, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic, the Singapore Symphony, the Swedish Radio Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo’s NHK Symphony, the Toronto Symphony, the Vienna Symphony, and the Warsaw Philharmonic. Her extensive discography can be found on the Hyperion, 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 and sonatas of Saint-Saëns and Fauré for RPO Records. 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 Kitaenko. 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. Her most recent recordings include works by Debussy, Messiaen, Ravel, Satoh and Takemitsu for the AVIE label. Also recorded are two works written expressly for Ms. Meyers that includes 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. She gave the world premiere of 'Angelfire' at the Kennedy Center with Marin Alsop and the National Symphony Orchestra. This fall, Naxos will be releasing a performance of Jennifer Higdon's piano trio 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 Penderecki, a PBS broadcast with the Boston Pops Orchestra and John Williams. Her appearances on “The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson and the "Emmy Award Show" attracted national attention. Ms. Meyers’ performances of the Sibelius Concerto led by James DePreist, the Bruch Concerto with Leopold Hager and the Mendelssohn Concerto led by Adrian Leaper with the RTVE Orchestra were televised across Europe. She was also featured performing with Keith Lockhart and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra that attracted an audience of 10,000 and was broadcast live on the Internet around the world. An outstanding public speaker, she has been featured in numerous print and television commercials and in 1998, was 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 of the popular UK-based magazine, Muso. A committed advocate of music education, she has led numerous masterclasses and lectures across the US and Japan, been a panelist at the Juilliard hosted Starling-DeLay Symposium and has been an adjudicator at many competitions. Ms. Meyers studied with Alice and Eleanor 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 a magnificent Antonius Stradivarius violin dated 1730. |
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