Vancouver USA Arts & Music Festival: VSO with Anne Akiko Meyers & Gerard Schwarz

• Anne Akiko Meyers, violin
• Gerard Schwarz, conductor

Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers presents an evening of American composers with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Gerard Schwarz.

About Vancouver USA Arts & Music Festival

Free and open to all ages, the Vancouver Arts & Music Festival invites you to enjoy three days of world-class music, art, dance, food and fun! Stages, pop-up galleries, family activities and food vendors will be available throughout downtown Vancouver and Esther Short Park.

About Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (USA)

https://vancouversymphony.org/

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.

About Gerard Schwarz, conductor

https://www.gerardschwarz.com/