'Wind & Wave': Anne Akiko Meyers plays the World Premiere of Daugherty's 'Blue Electra' | Noseda conducts La Mer

• Anne Akiko Meyers, violin

Richard Wagner — Overture to Der fliegende Holländer ("The Flying Dutchman"), WWV 63
Michael Daugherty — Blue Electra (world premiere)
Samuel Barber — Night Flight, Op. 19a
Claude Debussy — La Mer, L. 109, CD. 111

Superstar violinist Anne Akiko Meyers gives flight to the world premiere of Blue Electra, Grammy-winning composer Michael Daugherty's new work inspired by American icon Amelia Earhart. Noseda closes the program with Debussy's La Mer—a depiction of dawn's early light upon the sea… the frolicsome play of the waves… and the dynamic dialogue between wind and water.

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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.

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