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January, 2012
* 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
* Meyers was featured on Tourneau's website, shopping for some beautiful watches.

 

August, 2011
* Anne performed LIVE on ABC's television network, 'Windy City Live!', before her recital at Ravinia.

 

July, 2011
*Anne performed the National Anthem in front of 42,000 cheering fans at Seattle's beautiful Safeco Field before the Mariners-Red Sox Game!

 

May, 2011
*Meyers recorded the Bach Concerti, including the Double Concerto with both the 'Royal Spanish' and the 'ex-Molitor/Napoleon' Stradivari violins. This album will also include 'Air', 'Ave Maria' and Bach's 'Largo' with the English Chamber Orchestra and is due out in the spring, 2012 on eOne Records.

 

May, 20112
*Anne was named 'Instrumentalist of the Year' by the Austin Critic's Table! Kampai!

 

April, 2011
*Anne helped raise $88,000 dollars for the Japan Earthquake Fund at NY's, Japan Society, when she performed with Ryuichi Sakamoto on April 9, 2011.Watch the video here.
The Play For Japan Benefit Solo Recital on April 29, 2011, raised close to $60,000. This was broadcast around the world on the Internet.
Thank you for your support!

 

March, 2011
*Read the BBC Music Magazine feature about what Anne has been up to. By Rebecca Franks.

 

February, 2011
*'..the truth is that Meyers possesses a tone so pure that it emerges just a few times in a generation.'
Austin Statesman Review
Anne Gives Austin Passion A review by Paul E.Robinson.
*Also, some fascinating stories about Anne... Presto Con Fuoco by Robert Faires and a lunchtime meeting with Jeanne Claire van Ryzin.

 

January, 2011
*'The Dream Violinist' garners brilliant reviews in BBC Music Magazine and Gramophone.

 

December, 2010
*Anne Akiko Meyers and her 'Ex-Napoleon/Molitor' Stradivarius dated 1697, is the #3 story of 2010 on MSNBC's 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann'.

 

October, 2010
*Sony releases her performances with the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and many recital albums. Available exclusively at iTunes.

 

October, 2010
*Ms.Meyers receives fantastic reviews in Pasadena, California, performing the Barber Concerto with Maestro James DePriest, on her newly acquired 'Ex-Napoleon/Molitor' Stradivarius dated 1697. Read the Los Angeles Times and the Pasadena Star-News.

 

October, 2010
*Ms.Meyers acquires the ex-Napoleon/Molitor Stradivarius violin dated 1697.
Read about its incredible provenance and watch her play it on MSNBC's 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann'.

 

September, 2010
*Anne's newest CD, 'Seasons...dreams' is released on eOne Records. It features 3 world premieres and music with harpist, Emmanuel Ceysson and pianist, Reiko Uchida. Beethoven, Debussy, Gershwin, Schnittke, Wagner and Vernon Duke are some of the composers that are featured. Available now at Amazon, Barnes&Noble, ArkivMusic and iTunes.
** Watch the video here!

 

September, 2010
*Ms.Meyers receives rave reviews in St.Louis performing Mozart's Violin Concerto in G Major with Wynton Marsalis cadenzas. You can read about her collaboration with Louis Langree and the St.Louis Symphony in the Examiner and the St.Louis Dispatch.

 

March, 2010
*Anne is featured in Strings Magazine....

 

February, 2010
*Anne has a Q&A with the Austin Statesman about her commissioning Jakub Ciupinski to write a new electronics piece

 

January, 2010
*Read about Anne's collaboration with Chris Botti and a review of a performance from West Palm Beach, Florida...She also tours with Chris in South Carolina, New Jersey and Maine. A review from the Morristown, N.J. concert is here!

 

December, 2009
*Anne speaks with IL DIVO fans here.

 

November, 2009
*Read the international IL DIVO press release here!

 

August, 2009
*Read here...Meyers' review with Wynton Marsalis' groundbreaking cadenzas. The Utah Symphony with David Lockington conducting.

 

July, 2009
*Just in!...Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, generously donated one of her violins to the Salvi Foundation – in Bogota and Cartagena, Colombia. The violin, bow, case and several sets of strings, valued at close to $10,000, will be given to one of their young talents.

 

May, 2009
Anne is featured in 'Listen' Magazine
*The trailblazing violinist 'charts her own course.'

 

May, 2009
*Anne's BBC Scottish Symphony reviews are in....
Read Anne's 'spellbinding' reviews here.  

 

April, 2009
*J&R Music World CD Signing
Anne will sign her newest release, 'Smile', and perform selections from it.

 

March, 2009
*Listen to Anne on Minnesota Public Radio
Anne was featured on Minnesota Public Radio. Listen to the interview here.

 

January, 2009
*The New York Times Review of the Le Poisson Rouge Concert
Read the review.

 

January, 2009
*Koch releases ‘Smile’ worldwide and features works by Arlen, Chaplin, Messiaen, Miyagi, Part, Piazzolla, Schubert and Taki. Watch the EPK here.

 

November, 2008
*AAM is featured on NPR’s ‘Soundcheck’ with John Schaefer
We are all a product of our environment. But for many artists, the New York City landscape directly affects their creative life. With that in mind, we invited artists to name their favorite cultural spot in the city. You can view them all on the web map Noteworthy New York. Here is a pick from violinist Anne Akiko Meyers: a quiet atrium in mid-town Manhattan. She told Soundcheck producer Brian Wise what is so special about that place.

 

November, 2008
*AAM reviewed in THE GUARDIAN and THE BIRMINGHAM POST
Anne performed the Barber Concerto with the City of Birmingham Orchestra, Andrew Litton conducting, in the U.K. Read the reviews here.

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