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Play for Japan USA
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami's hit the northeastern part of Japan. The massive tsunami's engulfed many houses, buildings, schools and people, claiming more than 10,000 lives and leaving more than 15,000 missing and 170,000 forced to live in shelters with scarce supplies of food, water and basic necessities. The tremendous aftermath of the disaster requires a long-term recovery.
Play for Japan USA organizes events to raise money and awareness for the Japanese disaster relief efforts. This benefit concert project was born out of the committee members’ sincere wish to help those people in the devastated area, as well as all those in Japan immediately impacted by the tragedy.
Ms.Meyers will perform at this special Benefit Concert on April 29, 2011 at the Woodside Performing Arts Center in California. Please visit the website for more information.
Ms.Meyers helped raise over $88,000 for the Japan Earthquake Fund at the Japan Society in New York City when she performed at a special benefit on April 9, 2011 with Ryuichi Sakamoto, piano.
Anne Akiko Meyers and Wendy Chen, piano, raised $60,000 on April 29th, 2011, for Play For Japan.
Hope Happens
Their mission is to improve the lives of people with neurodegenerative disorders by promoting collaborative, translational research with the potential to fast-track new cures.
The focus is on a small family of neurological disorders, including ALS, Alzheimer’s disease, Cerebral Palsy, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, traumatic spinal cord and brain injury and stroke.
Hope Happens was founded in 2002 as ALS HOPE by Christopher Hobler and his family after he was diagnosed with ALS in 2001.
In November of 2004, Hope Happens partnered with Washington University to launch the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders at Washington University in St. Louis, a research center dedicated to speeding the process of translating basic scientific discoveries into therapies and cures.
See how Anne helped raise $160,000 for this very important cause at the Sheldon in St.Louis, Missouri.
The Teak Fellowship
The TEAK Fellowship helps talented New York City students from low-income families gain admission to and succeed at top high schools and colleges. Along with academic support, TEAK provides leadership training, exposure to the arts and outdoors, mentoring, career experience, and assistance with the high school and college application processes.
Recently, Anne helped raise $1 million dollars at their 10th anniversary celebration at New York City’s Chelsea Piers. She also taught and demonstrated violin playing to the Teak Fellowship scholars. View Teak 10th Anniversary PDF.
World Trade Center Memorial Site
The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) administered the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition. Through this competition, the jury selected a design for a single memorial that remembers and honors all loss of life on September 11, 2001, and February 26, 1993. The LMDC received an enormous outpouring of ideas from across the globe with 13,683 registrants and 5,201 Memorial submissions from 63 nations. Michael Arad, the architect with the winning design, used Anne’s music to pair Reflecting Absence with. Watch this short video here.
News
January, 2012
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Anne's newest release, 'Air-The Bach Album' featuring the A minor & E Major Concerti plus the Double Concerto, where she played both parts on the 1697 Ex-'Molitor/Napoleon' and 1730 'Royal Spanish' Stradivarius violins, will be released on Valentine's Day in 2012. Get the sneak peek of the making of the album.
December, 2011
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Meyers
was featured on Tourneau's website, shopping for some beautiful watches.