Anne Akiko Meyers performing Saturday, April 18th at J&R’s for Record Store Day

Anne Akiko Meyers will be performing and signing autographs on Saturday, April 18th as part of J&R’s celebration of Record Store Day at 1:00 pm.

Meyers has just issued an appealing new CD, Smile, on the Koch International Classics label. It’s an eclectic collection of mostly short, tuneful pieces: Charlie Chaplin’s nostalgic Smile, Astor Piazzolla’s seductive Milonga en Re and Introduccion al Angel, Michio Miyagi’s wistful Haru no Umi (’Sea in Spring’), all played with an unfailingly sweet tone, molding her phrases like a singer.

Starting her studies at age four, Anne Akiko Meyers first performed with a local orchestra at the age of seven, then burst into national prominence at age eleven, when she twice performed on ‘The Tonight Show’ with Johnny Carson and appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She was soon performing throughout the United States, Japan, Australia and Europe and by the time her debut disc of the Barber and Bruch violin concertos was released at age 18, Meyers was recognized as one of the stars of her generation.

She was featured in a live global Internet broadcast with Keith Lockhart and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, performed in front of some 750,000 people during Sydney’s 250th Bicentennial celebrations, and has performed for dignitaries including the Emperor and Empress of Japan.

A best-selling recording artist, she seeks to reach wider audiences through new works and showcasing under-performed or rarely heard music; recordings of works written expressly for her include a live performance of the Somei Satoh Violin Concerto with Tetsuji Honna and the Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra on the Camerata label, and Angelfire by Pulitzer-prize winning composer Joseph Schwantner with Andrew Litton and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra on Hyperion.

Anne Akiko Meyers studied with Alice and Eleanore Schoenfeld at the Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles, with Josef Gingold at Indiana University, and Felix Galimir, Masao Kawasaki and the late Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School. The recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, she performs on the “Royal Spanish” Antonius Stradivarius violin, dated 1730, that once belonged to the King of Spain.

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