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Anne Akiko Meyers

Anne Akiko Meyers is an important American violinist who has enjoyed wide attention since her early years. She has performed on many of the world's most famous stages, such as the Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall, and Lincoln Center, and with equally famous conductors, including Kristjan Jarvi, Gerard Schwarz, and Gustavo Dudamel, orchestras, and other musicians. In addition to her artistry in the standard repertoire, Meyers has more and more frequently set herself apart as a champion of new music. Some of her dozens of recordings have debuted at number one on the Billboard Classical chart, and she is a popular artist on many classical radio stations and streaming platforms. Born in California, Meyers began studying the violin at age four. Within three years, she was a soloist with a local community orchestra, after which she began studying at the Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles. In 1981, she made her Los Angeles Philharmonic debut, not long after appearing on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, the first of many television appearances for the artist over her entire career. An engagement with the New York Philharmonic came when she was 12. Meyers continued her studies with some of America's most distinguished pedagogues, starting with Josef Gingold at Indiana University and then, beginning when she was just 14, with Dorothy DeLay, Felix Galimir, and Masao Kawasaki at the Juilliard School. By 18, she had made her first recording -- concertos by Barber and Bruch -- on the Canyon Classics label. Before her graduation from Juilliard in 1990, she signed an exclusive recording contract with RCA and began touring extensively. In 1993, she received the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. Most of her eight RCA recordings revolved around Romantic music, but by the end of her contract, she had recorded the Prokofiev concertos and 20th century American sonatas. Even so, this hardly hinted at the violinist's strengthening interest in new music. She worked closely with composer Joseph Schwantner on his concerto Angelfire, which she premiered in 2002. That same year, she premiered and recorded a violin concerto by Somei Satoh. Since then, she has worked with many composers on new concertos and recital pieces, not limiting herself to people normally thought of as classical composers: Wynton Marsalis wrote cadenzas for Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 3 for her to perform in 2009. She gave the premiere performance of Mason Bates' Violin Concerto in 2012. That same year, Meyers' first album to debut at number one on the Billboard Classical chart was Air: The Bach Album. In 2014, with her recording of the Four Seasons, she was named the top-selling traditional classical instrumental soloist by Billboard. That also marked her first recording using the 1741 "Ex-Vieuxtemps" Guarneri del Gesu violin, which was presented to her for her lifetime use. By 2020, Meyers had made dozens of recordings, with most after the mid-2010s containing at least one new piece. Meyers gave the first performances of Fandango, Arturo Márquez's mariachi-inspired concerto, with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic and with Giancarlo Guerrero and the Seattle Symphony in 2021. This was followed by the release of the jazzy Shining Night in the spring of 2022. She is scheduled to debut Michael Daugherty's Blue Electra, about Amelia Earhart, with Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra in the fall of 2022.
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