Critical Acclaim Features (selected)
"Ms.Meyers' relaxed and meditative performance, (of the Lark Ascending) was ecstatic. A vigorous and articulate performance (of Ravel's Tzigane) vouchsafed Ms.Meyers' credentials as one of the great virtuosos of our time."
Santa Barbara News-Press
"Shamefully gorgeous" [Seasons...dreams]
The Huffington Post
"A musical journey that begins with a gentle dreamscape and ends with the languorous longings of a nocturnal reverie under moonlight...An audiophile's dream come true!"
Audiophile Audition
"Seasons...dreams' is played with her usual intelligence and beautiful singing tone....It's all played in ways that grab the brain as well as the ear, and the world needs more of that.
St.Louis Post-Dispatch
"Her performances with trumpeter, Chris Botti were described as ''heart-stopping" and "enchanting"...
"Her flawless playing blended seamlessly with Botti's horn"
The Palm Beach Daily News
"She played with an unfailingly sweet tone, molding her phrases like a singer."
The New York Times
"For musical theatricality, it was Barber's Violin Concerto in the hands of Anne Akiko Meyers that proved most memorable. Her capacity to make this instrument (the Royal Spanish Strad) speak was compelling. Such luxuriant richness of tone invested Barber with a rare profundity, while the moto perpetuo finale had a brilliance that convincingly carried its own dramatic logic."
The Guardian, UK
“If Anne Akiko Meyers was Barry Bonds, she would have broken Hank Aaron's record with performances that were nothing short of brilliant.”
The Durango Herald
“Meyers does not simply interpret music-she feels it, she becomes empowered by it and she expresses it. Meyers' tone, inflection, technical skills and passion are mesmerizing. Her passionate play is creatively impulsive and truly does take you on a story-filled journey with each passage.”
The Citizen's Voice
“It's hard to imagine that Meyers could play with any more energy, confidence and imagination than she showed. Her breakneck brilliance completed an awe-inspiring interpretation.”
Pioneer Press
"Meyers is a powerful, charismatic musician....the performance wove a spell that took the audience to another sonic realm.”
The Plain Dealer
“Her playing was unspooled with impressive refinement, emotional freedom and tonal depth”
The New York Times
“A special gift from the moment she played the first note. She seduced us with her exquisite musical sensitivity and created continuous musical magic.”
El Correo
“Meyers is a passionate performer whose passion becomes an invitation to enter into the music and our own humanity more deeply.”
Oregon's Mail Tribune
“She can play the violin like a house afire. No one wanted to let her off the stage.”
Raleigh News Observer
“She brought vivid imagination infusing the concerto with personality and stunning finesse, casting a spell from the outset.”
The Cincinnati Enquirer
“Meyers spoke through her instrument”
Andante.com
“Meyers was determined to coax everything from the orchestra that could possibly be coaxed. Her playing was inspired, technically perfect, impassioned and compelling.”
Utrechts Dagblad -The Netherlands
“The way she gave each note a tiny story en route was enchanting-a splendid, breathtaking performance.”
NZZ-Zurich
“A thousand sensitive tones…Anne Akiko Meyers captivated her audience immediately with her finely spun tone, which was capable of marvelously subtle transformations.”
Die Rheinpfalz
“Meyers seemed not only a consummate fiddler but also a whole bevy of singers, from a lush operatic soprano to a raw-throated honky-tonk belter.”
San Diego Reader
“She played like a woman possessed.”
Dallas Morning News
“One of the most remarkable interpreters of her generation”
Alkmaarsche Courant-The Netherlands
“Her playing captured the Puccini-like yearning and tenderness with the naturalness of a great singer and which brought at least one listener close to tears.”
BALTIMORE SUN
“Playing that flows from the heart.”
The New York Times
“Meyers was like an enchantress. And her violin seemed to conjure the forces of nature. Fire, water, wind and even stillness all were within the command of her bow.”
Dayton Daily News
“Her sound was beguiling and deep-she has a lyrical gift, combining sonority and expressiveness.”
Philadelphia Inquirer
“Vigorous mastery, unflinching technical skills and stylish elegance.”
Los Angeles Times
“Can take a meandering train of thought and spin it out into a melody of exquisite beauty-this is playing of rare sensitivity.”
BBC Music Magazine
“She is not afraid to take risks-there seems to be no limit to the colors this violinist can draw from her instrument.”
American Record Guide
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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.