Artist Bio
Anne Akiko Meyers, GRAMMY® Award–winning violinist, is one of today’s most influential artists, celebrated for transforming the violin repertoire through visionary collaborations with leading composers. Hailed by The Strad as “the Wonder Woman of commissioning,” she has inspired an extraordinary body of new works, by legendary composers including Arvo Pärt, Einojuhani Rautavaara, John Corigliano, Arturo Márquez, Philip Glass, Michael Daugherty, Mason Bates, Adam Schoenberg, Billy Childs, Jakub Ciupiński, Ola Gjeilo, Morten Lauridsen, Wynton Marsalis, Somei Satoh, and Eric Whitacre.
In recognition of her artistic vision and collaborative leadership, Meyers was recently named the first-ever Artistic Partner of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
Highlights of Meyers’ 2026–27 season include the European premiere of
Arturo Márquez’s Fandango with Ludovic Morlot and the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, and appearances with the New World and Chicago Symphony Orchestras. She performs Philip Glass’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Grant Park Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, and joins the Los Angeles Master Chorale in celebrating Grant Gershon’s 25th anniversary in a special concert at
Walt Disney Concert Hall.
At the Library of Congress, she premieres a new work by Billy Childs and performs Michael Daugherty’s Blue Electra with the Santa Barbara and Reno Symphony Orchestras.
October marks the 25th Anniversary reissue of the remastered vinyl edition of
East Meets West with pianist Li Jian, featuring works by Debussy, Messiaen, Ravel, and Somei Satoh.
In January, celebrating Philip Glass’s 90th birthday, Platoon releases Meyers’s performance of Philip Glass Violin Concerto No. 1 on vinyl, recorded with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Meyers also releases Animals Carnaval, featuring Gene Pritsker’s Brazilian-inspired reimagining of Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals, alongside Arturo Márquez’s Danzón No. 2, The Girl from Ipanema, and works by George Gershwin and José Luis Merlin.
“Anne Akiko Meyers is the coolest thing to happen to the violin since Stradivari.”
In the 2025–26 season, Meyers premiered, recorded and releasedThe Pacific Has No Memory by Eric Whitacre, co-commissioned by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Colorado Music Festival, and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Meyers also previewed this work leading two community concerts at St. Matthew’s Church in the Pacific Palisades commemorating the first anniversary of the fires that devastated the Palisades and Altadena communities with Lucinda Carver, the Pacific Strings, Grant Gershon, and members of the Los Angeles Master Chorale.
A passionate advocate for living composers, Meyers’s discography numbers more than forty recordings, many of them world premieres. Her performance of Somei Satoh’s Birds in Warped Time II from East Meets West, was featured in the winning presentation for the World Trade Center Memorial design.
Meyers commissioned and performed the world premiere of Billy Childs’sIn the Arms of the Beloved with Childs, Grant Gershon and the Los Angeles Master Chorale. The project was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and received a GRAMMY® nomination for Best Choral Performance alongside works by Ola Gjeilo and Eric Whitacre. Other notable recent releases include Michael Daugherty’s Blue Electra with the Albany Symphony and David Alan Miller, and works by Philip Glass, including New Chaconne, which Glass composed for Meyers, and the Violin Concerto No. 1, with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
In 2024, her recording of Arturo Márquez’s Fandango with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic earned two GRAMMY® nominations and two Latin GRAMMY® Awards for Best Classical Album and Best Contemporary Composition. Since its 2021 premiere at the Hollywood Bowl, the work has been performed nearly 50 times by 19 orchestras worldwide, including the LA Philharmonic’s triumphant return to Carnegie Hall after a 32-year absence.
Credit: Ayaka Sano
Meyers has appeared twice on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, NPR’s Tiny Desk, CBS Sunday Morning, Evening at Pops, Great Performances, The View, and the Emmy Awards, as well as in a Countdown with Keith Olbermann segment that became the program’s third most-watched story of the year. She has graced the covers of Gramophone, Strings, and The Strad, and performed at landmark events including the John Williams Hollywood Bowl Stage Naming, Australia’s Bicentennial Celebration, the opening of the Arvo Pärt Centre, GRAMMY Legends honoring John Williams, performances for Emperor and Empress Akihito of Japan and Queen Máxima with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and renditions of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at T-Mobile Park and Dodger Stadium.
Meyers is the recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Distinguished Alumna Award, and an Honorary Doctorate from The Colburn School, and is a member of the Asian Hall of Fame. She serves on the Boards of The Juilliard School and the Dudamel Foundation.She performs on the legendary 1741 Ex-Vieuxtemps Guarneri del Gesù violin.
Born in San Diego and raised in Southern California, Meyers traveled eight hours round trip from the Mojave Desert to Pasadena for lessons with Alice Schoenfeld and Eleonore Schoenfeld, often practicing in the front seat of the family Volkswagen Beetle. At 14, she moved to New York to study at The Juilliard School with Dorothy DeLay, Masao Kawasaki, and Felix Galimir; signed with management at 16; and recorded her debut album at 18 atAbbey Road Studios.
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