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 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 performances 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 remastered vinyl edition of East Meets West with pianist Li Jian, featuring works by Debussy, Messiaen, Ravel, and Somei Satoh.
Early next year, Meyers releases Animals Carnaval, a 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.
In the 2025–26 season, named first-ever Artistic Partner of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Meyers premiered, recorded and released The Pacific Has No Memory by Eric Whitacre. This work was co-commissioned with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Colorado Music Festival, and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra where Meyers also led two community concerts at St. Matthew’s Church in the Pacific Palisades with Grant Gershon, members of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Lucinda Carver and the Pacific Strings, commemorating the first anniversary of the fires that devastated the Palisades and Altadena communities.
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 her
East Meets West, remastered and available this October, was featured in the winning presentation for the
World Trade Center Memorial design.
Beloved, featuring Billy Childs In the Arms of the Beloved alongside works by Ola Gjeilo and Eric Whitacre recorded with Grant Gershon and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, received a GRAMMY® nomination for
Best Choral Performance. 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 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 close to 50 times with 19 orchestras worldwide, including the LA Phil’s triumphant return to Carnegie Hall after a 32-year absence.
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 at
Abbey Road Studios.
