Colorado Music Festival: Anne Akiko Meyers Plays Ravel
$25-$107 ($13.50 student with ID/ages 17 & under)
- Anne Akiko Meyers, violin
- Peter Oundjian, conductor
Eric Whitacre — The Pacific Has No Memory
Maurice Ravel — Tzigane
Hector Berlioz — Overture to Béatrice and Bénédict
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Romeo and Juliet, TH 42, ČW 39
There is something for everyone in these energetic concerts! Be among the first to hear a new showpiece for violin, The Pacific Has No Memory, composed by Eric Whitacre and commissioned by Latin Grammy-winning violinist Anne Akiko Meyers. Meyers, "the coolest thing to happen to the violin since Stradivari" (Denver Post), also performs Ravel's fiery Tzigane. Music Director Peter Oundjian opens the program with Copland's idyllic tribute to the American heartland, Appalachian Spring, and concludes with one of the most recognizable pieces of music ever written: the achingly romantic Fantasy-Overture to Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet.
About Anne Akiko Meyers, violin
Anne Akiko Meyers is one of the world's most esteemed violinists and been described as "a musical wizard, with astonishing access to every kind of expressive color."
She regularly performs around the world as soloist with leading orchestras, in recital and is a prolific recording artist with over 40 recordings. A muse and champion of living composers, she recently premiered and performed Fandango by Arturo Márquez with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at The Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Hall, and the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City; and Blue Electra by Michael Daugherty at The Kennedy Center with Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra to massive critical and audience acclaim.
Anne has premiered new music with the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, Nashville, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, San Diego, Seattle, Washington D.C., Helsinki, Hyogo, Leipzig, London, Lyon, and New Zealand, among others. She has worked closely with Arvo Pärt (Estonian Lullaby); Einojuhani Rautavaara (Fantasia, his final complete work); John Corigliano (cadenzas for the Beethoven Violin Concerto; Lullaby for Natalie); Arturo Márquez (Fandango); Michael Daugherty (Blue Electra); Mason Bates and Adam Schoenberg (violin concertos), Jakub Ciupiński, Jennifer Higdon, Samuel Jones, Morten Lauridsen, Wynton Marsalis, Akira Miyoshi, Gene Pritsker, Somei Satoh, and Joseph Schwantner.
Meyers performs on the Ex-Vieuxtemps Guarneri del Gesù, dated 1741, considered by many to be the finest sounding violin in existence, and endorses Larsen Strings.