Anne Akiko Meyers Featured in Cover Story for Strings Magazine

GRAMMY® Award-winning violinist Anne Akiko Meyers speaks with Megan Westberg from Strings Magazine for the cover story for the November-December 2025 issue. Westberg hails Meyers as a “stalwart champion of contemporary composers,” highlighting the recent release of three albums of contemporary music, with two more on the way.

Within the past year, Meyers’ recording output features Michael Daugherty: Blue Electra for violin and orchestra, Beloved (In the Arms of the Beloved) by Billy Childs, and Philip Glass Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel. Upcoming projects for Meyers include commissioned recordings of Adam Schoenberg’s violin concerto Orchard in Fog and Eric Whitacre’s The Pacific Has No Memory with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, which premiered to a sold-out crowd at Carnegie Hall in May 2025.

Meyers comments on the necessity of new music in the modern landscape of recording and performance: “You want music that grows…it’s a reflection of our times, our culture, and it just resonates, I think, so deeply in our hearts when we listen to music that makes us feel.”

Read the full piece here.

(Credit Jamie Pham)