Anne Akiko Meyers

Anne Akiko Meyers stands among the most influential violinists of our time. A GRAMMY® Award-winning artist with four decades of international acclaim, she is a defining force in contemporary music—both a muse and a fearless champion of today’s leading composers. Through her commissions, premieres, and recordings, she has helped reshape the modern violin repertoire. The Stradhails her as “the Wonder Woman of commissioning,” a title earned through her close collaborations with visionary composers such as 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.

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In the 2025–26 season, Meyers premieres and releases Eric Whitacre’s The Pacific Has No Memory with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Colorado Music Festival, and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, including a performance with the Pacific
Strings commemorating the first anniversary of the fires that devastated the Palisades and Altadena communities.
Her recent album Beloved, featuring Billy Childs’s In the Arms of the Beloved alongside works by Ola Gjeilo and Eric Whitacre with Grant Gershon and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, received a GRAMMY® nomination for Best Choral Performance. Other recent releases include Michael Daugherty’s Blue Electra, with the Albany Symphony and David Alan Miller, and Philip Glass’s New Chaconne and Violin Concerto No. 1 with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
In 2024, her recording of Márquez’s Fandango with Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic earned two Latin GRAMMY® Awards: Best Classical Album and Best Contemporary Composition. Since its 2021 Hollywood Bowl premiere, Fandango has been performed more than 40 times with 16 orchestras worldwide, including the LA Phil’s triumphant return to Carnegie Hall after a 32- year absence. Meyers reprised the work at the Hollywood Bowl in September with the LA Philharmonic under Giancarlo Guerrero.

She has appeared twice on The Tonight Show, Tiny Desk, CBS Sunday Morning,NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Evening at Pops, Great Performances, The View, The Emmy Awards, and in a Countdown with Keith Olbermann segment that became the program’s third most-watched story of the year. She has appeared multiple times on the covers of Gramophone, Strings and The Strad and has released more than forty critically acclaimed recordings.
She has performed at numerous distinguished events, including the John Williams Hollywood Bowl Stage Naming, the Bicentennial Celebration of Australia; the opening of the Arvo Pärt Centre in Estonia; the GRAMMY Salute to Music Legends honoring John Williams; for Emperor and Empress Akihito of Japan; for Queen Máxima of the Netherlands in a Museumplein Concert with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; an A&E broadcast of the Beethoven Violin Concerto at the 40th Pablo Casals Festival with the Montreal Symphony and Krzysztof Penderecki and “The Star-Spangled Banner” at T-Mobile Park in Seattle and Dodger Stadium. Her recording of Somei Satoh’s Birds in Warped Time II was part of the winning presentation for the World Trade Center Memorial design. 

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 and Eleonore Schoenfeld, practicing in the front of the family VW 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 at Abbey Road Studios.