Anne Akiko Meyers
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    Anne in 2007
  • 2009
  • Koch E1 Entertainment launches 'Smile'. A collection of works including 'Somewhere over the Rainbow', 'Smile', 'Moonlight over the Ruined Castle', 'Sea in Spring', tangos and fantasies by Part, Messiaen and Schubert.

    Meyers collaborates with jazz legend, Wynton Marsalis who has written new cadenzas for Mozart’s G Major violin concerto.
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  • 2008
  • University of California, Los Angeles invites her as Regent's Lecturer
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  • 2007
  • Global tour including performances in Germany, Holland, Japan, Poland, and Spain
  • 2006
  • Memorial Concert in Phoenix Hall, Hiroshima, Japan, commemorating the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945

    Performs Manuel Ponce's violin concerto at Avery Fisher Hall with Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra
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    Anne in 2004
  • 2005
  • Hyperion releases Angelfire, composed for and featuring Ms. Meyers, with Andrew Litton and the Dallas Symphony
  • 2004
  • Camerata releases the Somei Satoh Violin Concerto, written for Ms. Meyers, live from Suntory Hall with the Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra
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  • 2003
  • Performs with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in front of 10,000 people with performance broadcast live throughout Europe

    Avie CD launches with a recital at Lincoln Center featuring works by Satoh, Debussy, Messiaen, Takemitsu and Ravel
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    Anne Playing in New York
  • 2002
  • World premiere of Ezequiel Viñao’s tone poem, Saga, with Kristjan Jarvi’s Absolute Ensemble in New York City
  • 2001
  • The National Symphony Orchestra presents Ms. Meyers at the Kennedy Center, in world premiere performances of Joseph Schwantner’s Angelfire, a work written especially for her

    Tours Vienna and Germany with the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Antoni Wit conducting

    Performs the Szymanowski Concerto with the Warsaw Philharmonic for a specially televised 100-year anniversary concert
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    Anne with Isaac Stern, 1998
  • 2000
  • Performs a recital in the Old Forbidden City in Beijing
  • 1999
  • Televised performances across Europe of the Sibelius Concerto led by James DePreist and the Bruch Concerto with Leopold Hager and the RTVE Orchestra

    Appears at the Mostly Mozart Festival in Tokyo with Gerard Schwarz 

    Tours Holland with Peter Oundjian and the Nieuw Sinfonietta Orchestra
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    Performing in Aspen, CO
  • 1998
  • Photographed by Annie Leibovitz for Anne Klein’s Women of Substance fashion campaign that appears in magazines around the world

    Performs Bernstein’s Serenade in the Leonard Bernstein celebration at Lincoln Center

    Tours Holland and Belgium with I Fiamminghi conducted by Rudolf Werthen

    Participates in the Miyazaki Festival with Isaac Stern
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  • 1997
  • Performs in Vienna and Japan with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra with Claus Peter Flor conducting
  • 1996
  • A&E Network features Anne from the Casals Festival with the Montreal Symphony and Krzysztof Penderecki

    Tours Holland with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic with Ion Marin

    A recital in the Berlin Philharmonie Hall
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    Anne at age 19
  • 1994
  • Tours the Far East with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Zinman

    Tours Japan with the American Symphony Orchestra with Leon Botstein conducting
  • 1993
  • Receives the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, the only artist to be the sole recipient of this annual award
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    Anne at age 11 on The Tonight Show
  • 1991
  • Release of the first of multiple recordings on RCA Red Seal featuring works by Lalo and Bruch with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Jesus Lopez-Cobos

    Tours Moscow and Japan with the Moscow Philharmonic conducted by Mariss Jansons

    Tours Australia with the Australian Chamber Orchestra
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  • 1990
  • Appears in a special PBS broadcast with the Boston Pops Orchestra and John Williams
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    Anne in 1981 with the LA Philharmonic
  • 1988
  • At 18 years old, RPO releases Anne’s debut disk featuring the Barber and Bruch concertos with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Christopher Seaman
  • 1987
  • Signs with ICM artists at age 16
  • 1986
  • Joins the Young Concert Artists roster
  • 1985
  • Studies with Masao Kawasaki, Dorothy DeLay and Felix Galimir at the Juilliard School
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    Anne at age 10
  • 1984
  • Studies with Josef Gingold at Indiana University
  • 1982
  • Performs with Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic at age 12

    Performs on the Emmy Awards Show in Los Angeles

    Makes her Los Angeles Philharmonic debut at age 11
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  • 1981
  • Appears twice on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
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  • 1977
  • Makes her first orchestral appearance at age 7 with a local community orchestra
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  • 1974
  • Begins studying the violin at age 4
  • 1970
  • Born in San Diego, California, the first daughter of American and Japanese parents
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