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Fantastic #ShoutOut of Thanks from Anne Akiko Meyers!

Posted by Ruth Brons on Feb 4th 2019

Anne Akiko Meyers (born May 15, 1970) is an American concert violinist who performs as soloist and recitalist. Meyers was the top-selling classical instrumentalist of 2014 on Billboard's traditional classical charts. 


Meyers was born in San Diego, California, the daughter of an artist and college president. Her mother is of Japanese descent.[2] Raised in Southern California, she studied with Shirley Helmick, and then with Alice and Eleonore Schoenfeld at the Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles. She then studied with Josef Gingold at Indiana University—and Dorothy DeLay, Felix Galimir, and Masao Kawasaki at the Juilliard School in New York City. Combining her junior and senior high school years and graduating early from the Juilliard School at age 20, she began touring internationally and recording exclusively for RCA Red Seal.

Described as a child prodigy after her debut with a local community orchestra at the age of 7, she subsequently performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, twice on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson at age 11,[4] the Emmy Award Show and the New York Philharmonic with Zubin Mehta at age 12.[3] When she was 16, Meyers signed with ICM Artists and began touring and recording. Two years later she recorded her first album in London at the Abbey Road Studios, featuring the Barber and Bruch Concertos with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Having signed an exclusive RCA Red Seal contract at the age of 21, she went on to record a comprehensive discography. At the age of 23, she was the sole recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant.

Meyers has lifetime use, for touring and performances, of the 1741 Vieuxtemps Guarneri del Gesu.

She previously toured with a 1730 Stradivarius violin called the Royal Spanish, and a 1697 Stradivarius called Molitor.[7] It was purchased from Tarisio Auctions on October 14, 2010 for US$3,600,000, at the time the highest recorded auction price for any musical instrument until the Lady Blunt Strad was sold on June 20, 2011. Meyers has used the Molitor in multiple studio recordings including a recording of Bach's Concerto in D minor for Two Violins, BWV 1043, in which she plays both parts—one part on the "Royal Spanish" Strad and the other on the ex-Molitor.

In 2012, an anonymous buyer purchased the 1741 Vieuxtemps Guarneri del Gesu for an undisclosed amount (reportedly over $16 million), and granted Meyers lifetime use of it.

Meyers was the special guest violinist as part of Il Divo's Christmas Tour 2009[13] and toured with Chris Botti in 2010.

On September 11, 2015, Naïve Classiques released "Passacaglia" Works for violin and orchestra of Arvo Pärt with MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra and Kristjan Jarvi conducting, in celebration of Pärt's 80th birthday.