Sandbox Percussion: "Canto Ostinato" Casts a Musical Spell at Cal Performances
Sandbox Percussion and American Modern Opera Company gave a spectacular performance of Simeon ten Holt’s Canto Ostinato on Feb. 22 at Zellerbach Playhouse in Berkeley. San Francisco Chronicle reviews the show.
Sandbox Percussion and AMOC* and perform Canto Ostinato at Lincoln Center, June 25, 2025. Credit: Lawrence Sumulong
Sandbox Percussion and American Modern Opera Company (AMOC), gave a spectacular performance of Simeon ten Holt’s Canto Ostinato on Sunday, Feb. 22, under the auspices of Cal Performances at Zellerbach Playhouse in Berkeley.
Canto Ostinato is a layered, shimmering minimalist work from the 1970s that has earned a dedicated following in ten Holt’s native Netherlands, and is realized here by the four mallet percussionists of Sandbox, joined by AMOC members Conor Hanick and Matthew Aucoin on piano. As envisioned by these sterling interpreters, ten Holt’s hypnotic instrumental score unfurls in an emotional dramatic arc during an afternoon-length sonic journey.
“It was a sonically magical combination,” reports Lisa Hirsch for the San Francisco Chronicle. “Percussion instruments they may be, but together they created a wash of sound that was, paradoxically, both exciting and soothing. The music demanded attention, even as it verged on the hypnotic.”
The musical texture shifted from time to time, with instruments dropping out and coming back in. When all of the instruments played, the sound could pierce you, obliterating thought and leaving only sensation. Sometimes it felt like a great epic was being recited in the distance, the words incomprehensible.
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A Love Letter to Chamber Music: The Isidore String Quartet on the Cover of "Strings" magazine
The young, fabulous Isidore String Quartet, winner of the first prize and the Haydn prize at the 2022 Banff International String Quartet Competition, is on the cover of the March/April 2026 issue of Strings magazine.
“Part of the Juilliard Quartet’s influence on our mission is their motto of treating the old like it’s new and the new like it’s old,” violinist Adrian Steele, from the Isidore String Quartet, tells Greg Cahill from Strings magazine for the cover story of the March/April 2026 issue. “That ability to contextualize the repertoire and maintain its freshness is core to our mission as a group. One way to accomplish that is by treating the music as a playground — by shedding preconceptions or rigidity in interpretation.”
The group — Phoenix Avalon and Adrian Steele, violins; Devin Moore, viola; and Joshua McClendon, cello — has been on a steady rise since winning the first prize and the Haydn prize at the 2022 Banff International String Quartet Competition, and a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant.
The quartet's debut album, Adorations, is a love letter to chamber music — “a celebration of chamber music at its essence, a tapestry of joy, human connection, and the enduring resonance of lives intertwined,” Moore says. “We felt immense joy putting this album together and can’t wait for listeners to experience that same joy.”
Joy is indeed central to the Isidore's mission, Steele says. “In such an innately intimate setting, the community we build through our music should reflect the relationships we build within the quartet. The spark of live music comes from the looks and gestures we share during a performance, and that energy translates to our communication with the audience as a sort of ‘fifth member’ of the quartet.”
Ultimately, this fabulous young string quartet is just “four friends who love sharing music and connecting with each other and our communities, adds Avalon. “We aim to inspire joy and curiosity through our music and to reach as many people as possible. We want our performances to reflect the world we live in — with its struggles and challenges — while also offering a space for pause, honesty, and genuine connection.”
Read the full feature here.
Listen to Adorations on your favorite music streaming platform: oh.lnk.to/Adorations
Violinist.com: Interview with Esther Yoo
Music and love — these are two things that connect us all and allow us to relate without words. This is the idea at the heart of violinist Esther Yoo's new album, Love Symposium. She talks with Violinist.com.
Esther Yoo, one of the world’s leading violinists, recently released Love Symposium on Deutsche Grammophon. It is her most personal album yet. The centerpiece of the album, which features London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra led by the preeminent conductor Long Yu, is the Serenade after Plato’s Symposium, one of Bernstein’s most lyrical and enduring orchestral works.
Love Symposium is "an exploration of the many different aspects and forms of love," Yoo, the RPO’s first artist-in-residence, told Violinist.com. "It's an invitation for listeners to experience a philosophical and an emotional discovery of love - through music."
From the beginning, music has provided an important source of connection for Yoo. As a painfully shy child, "music was my most comfortable means of communication," she said. "Somehow I wasn't shy about being on stage, playing the violin or the piano for someone." For her, the violin best conveyed the range emotions that she wished to express.
Each of Yoo’s selections for Love Symposium is a portrait of a different kind of love — a reflection of love in all its guises, from the philosophical ideas found in the Symposium to the love of nature, family, friends, significant others, and, most importantly, “the ever-evolving love we learn to give ourselves,” according to Yoo's program note. “We often think of love in music as something purely romantic and idealized, but I wanted to create a sound world where we experience real love—the blissfully transcendent, the powerfully intoxicating, the gut-wrenchingly painful, and everything in between.”
Read the Violinist.com feature here.
Marin Alsop Launches Second Global Social Media Campaign “#PurpleBaton”
Marin Alsop, in partnership with the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship, will lead #PurpleBaton, a global social media movement advancing the careers of women conductors in classical music. OperaWire reports.
The world-renowned conductor Marin Alsop, in partnership with the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship, will lead #PurpleBaton, a global social media movement advancing the careers of women conductors in classical music.
The campaign takes place during March, National Women’s History Month. Alsop, the first woman to be named music director of a major U.S. orchestra and a defining conductor of our time, will be joined by hundreds of leading classical organizations and artists sharing videos and images with a purple baton. The campaign, gathered under the hashtag #PurpleBaton, advocates for greater representation of women music directors and conductors.
“The #PurpleBaton movement signals to the world support of women conductors on the podium, and women in leadership roles across all disciplines, explains Alsop. “Those who take part promise to be active allies in shaping a future rich with possibility. They’ll show up for exceptional women in leadership across classical music, affirming that there is a vital and engaged global audience for communities, organizations, and presenters committed to building a more equitable field.”
Anyone interested in supporting the campaign may order their own purple baton for $15 on batonz.com/purplebaton, and is encouraged to use the hashtag #PurpleBaton on social media.
Read the full OperaWire feature here.
Learn more about #PurpleBaton at marinalsop.com/projects/purplebaton/ and takialsop.org.
Beijing Music Festival: Opera for All
The Beijing Music Festival is forging a future for opera in China that is bold, international and unafraid to challenge its audience. Lauren Mcquistin reports for Opera Now.
The Beijing Music Festival, an annual music festival held in Beijing, “continues to solidify its position as an international hub for classical music,” reports Lauren Mcquistin for Opera Now. Creating a culture where classical music is for everyone is very much at the forefront of the illustrious festival’s goal.
The latest edition of the Beijing Music Festival, founded in 1998 by conductor Long Yu and today one of the world’s most important cultural events, welcomed the Chinese premieres of Handel’s Rinaldo in a concert performance by the London-based baroque orchestra The English Concert, and of Berg’s Wozzeck, in a fully staged production. The latter was “bold in its nuanced exploration of the universal human feelings of alienation, despair and struggle,” according to Mcquistin.
An important component of the Beijing Music Festival is to nurture future talent. Shuang Zou, the current artistic director, who is helping create a new wave of opera in China, says that she aims to “fit in as many young musicians to appear in our festival as possible,” including bringing Chinese composers from overseas to China to “share their vision, how they see themselves as Chinese composers in the world map.”
Read the full feature here.
Wozzeck at Beijing Music Festival, 2025
“Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote,” by Anthony Davis, Lands
The new opera by the celebrated composer — an allegory about migrants and immigration agents — tackles some of the most polarizing events of our time.
The New York Times reports on the new children’s opera Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote, by Anthony Davis, the composer of X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X. The new stage work chronicles a journey through deserts, a river, an underground tunnel and a border wall, told with singers dressed up as hopping bunnies, coyotes, snakes, and butterflies.
While Pancho Rabbit might present itself as a children’s opera, it tackles some of the most polarizing events gripping the nation today. It is based on a children’s picture book and written in Spanish and English, recounting the story of a Mexican farmer (Papa Rabbit), who crosses the border into the United States to work on carrot and lettuce fields. His young son, Pancho Rabbit, embarks on a perilous journey to find his father, escorted by a coyote that later tries to eat him.
“I wanted to find a way to capture the imagination of children at the same time having the subtext of what we are dealing with now,” Davis told the Times.
Read the full feature here.
"Promise and possibility:" the Isidore String Quartet
In the February issue of The Strad, the Isidore String Quartet members talk about their sudden propulsion into the professional string quartet scene, a beloved mentor whose loss has inspired their debut album, and their collaboration with the composer Billy Childs.
The New York City-based Isidore String Quartet, formed at the Juilliard School in 2019 and coached by the Juilliard String Quartet, is featured in the February 2026 issue of The Strad.
The members—violinists Adrian Steele and Phoenix Avalon, violist Devin Moore, and cellist Joshua McClendon—follow the Juilliards’ lineage by “approaching the established as if it were brand new, and the new as if it were firmly established.” They tell writer Pauline Harding about their sudden rise into the world of professional string quartet playing after winning the 14th Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2022, a beloved mentor whose loss has inspired their debut album, and their collaboration with the composer Billy Childs.
“I learned more in the first four months of us being a professional quartet than I did in school, about what I wanted to do with my life,” said Moore.
Distinguished by a refined and balanced ensemble sound, anchored by supreme technical proficiency, the quartet is set to release its debut recording, Adorations, in March, featuring music by Haydn, Barber, Mendelssohn, and Florence Price. It is a love letter to chamber music, to the solace it offers, the wonder it awakens, and the countless ways it has shaped, sustained, and inspired the Isidores.
Adorations is dedicated to the life and legacy of Joel Krosnick (1941–2025), the cellist of the Juilliard String Quartet from 1974 to 2016, who was their coach and mentor. He was an “overwhelming grandfather figure,” said McClendon. “Being in the room with him felt like a warm embrace.”
Read the full feature here.
The Cliburn: New York Times
The Cliburn, the classical music nonprofit known for its prestigious international piano competition, announced on Thursday that it would start a new contest for young conductors: the Cliburn International Competition for Conductors.
The Cliburn, the classical music nonprofit known for its prestigious international piano competition, announced on Thursday that it would start a new contest for young conductors.
Hosted in partnership with the Houston Symphony and the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, the inaugural Cliburn International Competition for Conductors will take place in 2028 in Houston, and award its grand prize winner $50,000. The groundbreaking conductor Marin Alsop will serve as jury chair.
“We ask our artists always to push their own boundaries, but as an organization, we have to also push our boundaries,” Jacques Marquis, the Cliburn’s president and chief executive, said in an interview.
Marquis noted that the Cliburn, which was named after the award-winning American pianist Van Cliburn, has a rich history of launching pianists’ careers. “In this world of classical music,” he added, “conductors are also really important.” Europe, he said, has several conducting competitions.
Read the full New York Times feature here.
The Cliburn Announces New Cliburn International Competition for Conductors
Hosted in partnership with the Houston Symphony and the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, the inaugural competition will take place in June 2028 in Houston, Texas with Marin Alsop as Jury Chair
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Houston, TX - January 22, 2026
The Cliburn announces the launch of a major new program: the Cliburn International Competition for Conductors, open to 21- to 35-year-old conductors. Taking place in June 2028 in Houston, Texas, in partnership with the Houston Symphony and the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, it will be the first major international conducting competition in North America. Marin Alsop, one of the foremost artists of our time and conductor of the 2022 and 2025 Van Cliburn International Piano Competitions, will serve as Jury Chair, and the Houston Symphony will perform with all competitors.
An esteemed Artistic Advisory Committee will consult on rounds, repertoire, and ways to support young conductors, and includes Alsop, Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Distinguished Resident Director of Orchestras and Professor of Conducting at the Shepherd School), Kent Nagano, Robert Spano, Juraj Valčuha (Music Director of the Houston Symphony), and Xian Zhang.
“Conductors are among the most pivotal figures in classical music and need opportunities to showcase their artistry. For more than 60 years, the Cliburn has focused on discovering exceptional young artists, launching their careers, and bringing classical music to the widest international audience possible. We are uniquely positioned to leverage our experience and reach to launch the first major conducting competition in North America,” said Jacques Marquis, President and CEO of the Cliburn. “Van Cliburn made his orchestra debut with the Houston Symphony at age 12 and later went on to conduct some of the world’s top orchestras himself, so this is a natural continuation of the Cliburn’s mission. We are delighted to come full circle and share his vision of excellence and love of music with the great city of Houston. The future of the arts and the ability to do great things rests on collaborations, and the Cliburn is thrilled to be working alongside the Houston Symphony and its fantastic musicians, and to partner with the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University to host. Inspired by Van’s legacy and Marin Alsop’s vision, we look forward to welcoming the world’s top young conductors to Texas in 2028.”
Applications for the Cliburn International Competition for Conductors, as well as full schedule, rules, rounds, and requirements, will be available in October 2026 and due in November 2027. A screening jury will review online applications and video submissions, selecting up to 25 applicants for a live audition in early 2028 at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. 12 competitors will then be invited to compete in June 2028. The competition itself will take place at the Shepherd School of Music and Jesse H. Jones Hall for the Performing Arts, home of the Houston Symphony. All Competition Rounds will be open to the public; tickets will go on sale in early 2028.
One grand prize winner will receive a cash award of $50,000, concert opportunities, and bolstered publicity efforts. Finalists will each receive cash awards of $20,000.
The Cliburn builds on its already well-established digital presence—with video views topping 100 million in over 180 countries over the past four years—and will livestream all rounds to a passionate international audience.
“Conducting the Finals of the past two Van Cliburn International Piano Competitions and watching the medalists’ careers blossom has been deeply rewarding. Creating access and new opportunities for the next generations of gifted musicians is one of the most meaningful aspects of my work,” said Marin Alsop. “When I was invited to serve as Jury Chair for a new conducting competition modeled on the Cliburn’s piano competition, it felt like a natural next step in my partnership with this wonderful organization and one that strongly aligns with my mission to remove barriers and expand opportunities for emerging conductors.”
“It is an honor for the Houston Symphony to collaborate on bringing the new Cliburn International Competition for Conductors to Houston,” said Gary Ginstling, Houston Symphony Executive Director and CEO and holder of the Margaret Alkek Williams Chair. “Houston is a global hub with a thriving international community and is the perfect place for the Cliburn to launch this new initiative. The Houston Symphony’s artistry and flexibility make us the ideal symphony orchestra to help identify a new generation of conducting talent.”
“The Shepherd School is thrilled to join our partners in launching this major new conducting competition,” said Matthew Loden, the Lynette S. Autrey Dean of Music at the Shepherd School of Music. “From its earliest days, the Shepherd School has been deeply committed to training young conductors, who study with distinguished faculty such as the late Larry Rachleff and now Miguel Harth-Bedoya. We are eager to host conducting talent from around the world in 2028, and we’re proud to be part of launching this next generation of musical leadership.”
Through this new competition, the Cliburn, the Houston Symphony, the Shepherd School of Music, and Alsop demonstrate dedication to discovering the best young artists and to sharing music with the largest global audience possible. Building on the legacy of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition—described by The Guardian as “the instrument’s Olympics”— the Cliburn International Competition for Conductors will be a catalyst for launching significant worldwide careers for its winners.
The Cliburn’s four-year cycle now evolves to:
YEAR ONE–Non-Competition Year
(focus on winners’ career management and other programs)
YEAR TWO–Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition
(for pianists age 13-17; June 2027)
YEAR THREE–Cliburn International Competition for Conductors
(for conductors age 21-35, June 2028)
YEAR FOUR–Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
(for pianists age 18-30, May/June 2029)
The Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition, inaugurated in 1999 to highlight the importance of music-making in everyday life, will be retired. The first event of its kind in the United States, the program has largely accomplished its mission of growing a thriving community of non-professional pianists.
Cliburn International Competition for Conductors Key Dates:
October 2026: Applications open for the Cliburn International Competition for Conductors; rules, rounds, and requirements are announced
November 2027: Applications due
January 2028: Tickets on sale
Winter 2028: Live screening round, hosted by the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, for up to 25 conductors
April 2028: 12 competitors announced
June 2028: Cliburn International Competition for Conductors takes place, with 12 invited competitors conducting the Houston Symphony
About the Cliburn
The Cliburn advances classical piano music throughout the world. Its international competitions, education programs, and concert series embody an enduring commitment to artistic excellence and the discovery of new artists. The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (eighteenth edition, May/June 2029) is widely considered “the instrument’s Olympics” (The Guardian, June 2025) and “one of the most prestigious contests in classical music” (The New York Times, June 2022). From its origins in 1962 through today, it has remained dedicated to sharing music with the largest international audience possible and to launching the careers of its winners. Known for excellence and innovation in the digital space, the Cliburn is one of the most-watched events in classical music: video views over the past four years have topped 100 million across 200 countries.
The Cliburn is a proven catalyst to significant worldwide touring careers for its winners, with a laureate roster that—in the past 25 years alone—includes Olga Kern, Joyce Yang, Haochen Zhang, Nobuyuki Tsujii, Yeol Eum Son, Vadym Kholodenko, Beatrice Rana, Yekwon Sunwoo, and Yunchan Lim. And to that list, it now adds its 2025 class: Aristo Sham (gold), Vitaly Starikov (silver), and Evren Ozel (bronze). This track record of success brings an elite group of 18- to 30-year-old pianists to Fort Worth every four years to compete for the coveted medals. The total Cliburn prize package is worth an estimated $2 million and includes comprehensive and personalized career management, concert bookings, artistic support, and bolstered publicity efforts.
Over a four-year cycle, the Cliburn contributes to North Texas’ cultural landscape with over 170 classical music performances for 150,000 attendees through competitions, free community concerts, and its signature Cliburn Concerts series. It presents 1,000 Cliburn in the Classroom in-school, interactive music education programs for more than 200,000 area elementary students.
About the Houston Symphony
Under the leadership of Music Director Juraj Valčuha, the Grammy Award-winning Houston Symphony continues to inspire and engage diverse audiences in Houston and beyond with exceptional musical performances and enduring community impact. The Symphony held its inaugural performance at The Majestic Theater in downtown Houston on June 21, 1913. Now in its second century as one of America’s premier orchestras, the Houston Symphony is one of the oldest performing arts organizations in Texas and remains a cultural cornerstone of the region.
With an annual operating budget of $42 million, the Symphony presents over 150 concerts each year, making it one of the largest performing arts organizations in Texas. Its reach extends far beyond the concert hall, delivering more than 600 performances annually at schools, community centers, hospitals, and other venues, engaging over 160,000 people throughout Greater Houston.
The Symphony's innovative response to the COVID-19 pandemic—completing its 2020-21 Season with in-person audiences and weekly livestreams—earned national recognition and the ASCAP Foundation’s Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Broadcast/Media Award. Its commitment to innovation continues, with its 2024-25 Season reaching audiences in over 45 countries and all 50 states via livestreaming, making it one of the few American orchestras to sustain such global digital engagement.
Renowned for its artistry, the Symphony has a distinguished recording legacy under prestigious labels, including Koch International Classics, Naxos, RCA Red Seal, and Pentatone. Highlights include a Grammy and ECHO Klassik Award-winning live recording of Alban Berg’s Wozzeck and recent releases such as Jimmy López Bellido’s Aurora and Ad Astra (2022) and Jennifer Higdon’s Duo Duel (2023).
The Symphony’s educational impact is equally remarkable, with its Harry and Cora Sue Mach Student Concert Series reaching over 50,000 students annually. Its In Harmony after-school program and partnerships with institutions like the Houston Methodist Hospital, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Texas Children’s Hospital further demonstrate the Symphony’s commitment to fostering community connections and accessibility to the arts.
With a vision centered on artistic excellence, community engagement, and accessibility, the Houston Symphony remains a cultural leader in Houston and a global ambassador for the transformative power of music.
About the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University
Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music cultivates the mastery of musical performance, combining a conservatory experience with the educational opportunities of a leading research university. Guided by the belief that talent manifests along unique paths, the Shepherd School limits its student body to 285 uniquely gifted young musicians.
Shepherd gives each music major access to world class teachers—all accomplished artists in their own right—dedicated to cultivating talent and professional success. Its faculty is known for their individualized instruction and for equipping musicians with the skills and experience necessary to develop their own esteemed careers.
Shepherd alumni include Pulitzer Prize and Grammy winners. They have debuted at Carnegie Hall, appeared with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Metropolitan Opera, and hold positions in orchestras and chamber music groups around the country and the globe.
In just fifty years, the Shepherd School of Music has become a leading international music school, making it both one of the youngest and one of the most prestigious university-level programs in the country.
About Marin Alsop
One of the foremost conductors of our time, Marin Alsop is the first woman to serve as the head of major orchestras in the United States, South America, Austria, and Great Britain. Winner of the 2025 Golden Baton Award from the League of American Orchestras, Alsop is also the first and only conductor to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.
Alsop serves as Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra, and Chief Conductor of the Ravinia Festival.
Alsop is a 2025-26 Carnegie Hall Perspectives artist, leading concerts with the Philharmonia Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, The Juilliard Orchestra and Carnegie Hall’s own Ensemble Connect. Additional season highlights include conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra’s season opener concerts as well as concerts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony Orchestra, Washington National Opera, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.
To nurture the careers of women conductors, Alsop founded the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship to empower extraordinary women conductors through intensive coaching, mentoring, and financial support. Today, all 36 award winners hold over 30 music director or chief conductor positions.
In 2021, Alsop assumed the title of Music Director Laureate of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. During her 14-year tenure as Music Director, she led the orchestra on its first European tour in 13 years, conducted more than two dozen world premieres, and founded the music education program OrchKids.
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Remembering A Fire’s Devastation, Violinist Offers Balm Of Music
By Paul Bodine - January 9, 2026. (Photos by Elizabeth Asher)
PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — Like a haunting reversion-to-nature scene, the quiet seaside community of Pacific Palisades appeared surprisingly green and lush Jan. 7 after winter rains. It was eerily quiet, the rare ostinato of construction hammers and whir of power screwdrivers overwhelmed by the vastness of empty lots, like silent gravesites. Exactly one year after a catastrophic fire that claimed 12 lives and destroyed 6,833 homes (the largest fire ever in Los Angeles in terms of structures lost), Pacific Palisades courageously mounted a one-year commemoration concert at the community’s Saint Matthew’s Episcopal Church, whose original building was destroyed by wildfire in 1978.
As Thomas Neenan, a member of St. Matthew’s Music Guild Board of Directors, bluntly confirmed, the concert was largely the work of one person — violinist and local resident Anne Akiko Meyers. “Anne has been the driving force behind everything that’s happened today,” he said.
The arson-caused firestorm that destroyed the neighborhood on Jan. 7, 2025, had direct effects on Los Angeles’ musical community. Not only did countless musicians lose homes and instruments, some historically significant, but it also took down local landmarks like Belmont Music Publishers, founded by Arnold Schoenberg’s son, home to thousands of now destroyed Schoenberg scores and parts. Meyers’ home, though damaged, was largely spared.
The violinist’s identification with Pacific Palisades, where she’s lived since 2016, runs deep. She was raised in Los Angeles, where one of her daughters attended the St. Matthews Parish School. Proceeds from the January 7 concert supported four arts organizations, and Meyers serves on the Board of Trustees of The Juilliard School and The Dudamel Foundation.