Anne Akiko Meyers

Anne Akiko Meyers is a GRAMMY® Award–winning violinist whose four-decade career has established her as one of the most influential voices in classical music today. Hailed by The Strad as “the Wonder Woman of commissioning,” she has forged an extraordinary legacy of new works through visionary collaborations with many of the world’s leading composers, including Arvo Pärt, Einojuhani Rautavaara, John Corigliano, Arturo Márquez, Philip Glass, Michael Daugherty, Mason Bates, Adam Schoenberg, Billy Childs, Jakub Ciupiński, Ola Gjeilo, Morten Lauridsen, Wynton Marsalis, Somei Satoh and Eric Whitacre.

As the first-ever Artistic Partner of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Meyers is redefining what it means to be a modern soloist—through dynamic collaborations, new commissions and a powerful recording legacy.

In the 2025–26 season, she premieres and releases The Pacific Has No Memory by Eric Whitacre, in collaboration with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Colorado Music Festival and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, as well as with Pacific Strings, commemorating the first anniversary of the fires that devastated the Palisades and Altadena communities.

Her recent album Beloved, featuring Billy Childs’s In the Arms of the Beloved alongside works by Ola Gjeilo and Eric Whitacre with Grant Gershon and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, received a GRAMMY® nomination for Best Choral Performance. Other notable releases include Michael Daugherty’s Blue Electra with the Albany Symphony and David Alan Miller, and works by Philip Glass, including New Chaconne and the Violin Concerto No. 1, with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

In 2024 her recording of Arturo Márquez’s Fandango with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic earned two Latin GRAMMY® Awards (Best Classical Album and Best Contemporary Composition). Since its 2021 premiere at the Hollywood Bowl, the work has been performed more than 40 times with 16 orchestras worldwide, including the LA Phil’s triumphant return to Carnegie Hall after a 32-year absence. Meyers reprised the work at the Hollywood Bowl in September 2025 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Giancarlo Guerrero.