Violinist

Giancarlo Guerrero conducts Dvořák’s New World Symphony, a Czech composer’s interpretation of the American folk songs and spirituals he had come to admire while living in the United States. Two works by prominent American minimalist composers open the program—John Adams’s Short Ride in a Fast Machine and Philip Glass’s Violin Concerto No. 1, featuring GRAMMY® Award-winning violinist Anne Akiko Meyers.

Dvořák New World Symphony

Millennium Park

Two Grammy-winning virtuosi join forces for an intimate evening of violin and guitar, in a breathtaking marsh-front setting at The Amelia River Club.

Anne Akiko Meyers, violin | Jason Vieaux, guitar

Amelia River Club

Two extraordinary talents come together for an evening of conversation and connection. Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, a Grammy Award winner and “Wonder Woman of commissioning” (The Strad), is a returning Festival favorite celebrated for her stunning performances and collaborations with today’s foremost composers. She is joined by Grammy‑winning guitarist Jason Vieaux, praised by NPR as “perhaps the most precise and soulful classical guitarist of his generation” and admired for his vibrant, expressive artistry.

Enjoy this free event with on‑stage interviews, audience Q&A, a cash bar, and photo opportunities—then make your plans now to hear them perform the following day.

Meet the Musician: Anne Akiko Meyers and Jason Vieaux

GRAMMY® Award-winning violinist Anne Akiko Meyers has earned the title “the Wonder Woman of Commissioning” from The Strad due to her relentless advocacy for many of today’s most influential living composers. Her collaboration with Michael Daugherty on the violin concerto Blue Electra, commissioned by her, powerfully reflects the extraordinary life and enigmatic disappearance of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. Critically acclaimed conductor Carl St. Clair returns to “pilot” a compelling journey that intertwines the themes of flight and fate, featuring Tchaikovsky’s commanding Symphony No. 4.

Anne Akiko Meyers Plays Blue Electra

Hawaii Theatre

Our opening concert, “Made in America,” will showcase Grammy Award-winning violinist Anne Akiko Meyers in Barber’s Violin Concerto—one of the great lyrical American classical concertos, complete with technical fireworks. The orchestra will be featured in Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances, his final symphonic work written entirely in America and premiered by the Philadelphia Orchestra. We open with Dvořák’s Carnival Overture, written just before Dvořák traveled abroad from Prague to live in the US to teach in New York City. This overture was seen as both a farewell to his native country and as a hello to New York.

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Made in America

Baylor University

Music Director Andreas Delfs leads our soaring season opener with a thrilling mix of energy and elegance. Esteemed American violinist Anne Akiko Meyers brings her signature radiance to Barber’s deeply expressive Violin Concerto, a work of lyrical beauty and dazzling virtuosity. Mason Bates’ high-octane Mothership launches the program with modern flair, while Dvořák’s joyous Symphony No. 6 fills Kodak Hall with rich melodies and Bohemian spirit. An awe-inspiring start to an unforgettable season!

RPO: 25/26 Season Opener! Breathtaking Barber

Kodak Center

Winner of the 2024 Latin Grammy for Best Classical Contemporary Composition, Fandango is a love letter to the Spanish dance and its New World progeny written for violinist Anne Akiko Meyers. “The Concerto itself is a rainforest of impossible challenges. Yet Anne Akiko Meyers, for whom the work was written, soared through this jungle, her 1741 Guarneri del Gesù violin jumping, bouncing, playing the frequent high registers with operatic facility” (ConcertoNet.com). Márquez’s irresistible Danzón No. 2 kicks things off on a lively note.

Márquez’s Fandango & Shostakovich’s Fifth

Hollywood Bowl

From a spiritual pilgrimage in the Sierra Madre to Debussy’s visions of Spain, Artistic Director Stéphane Denève opens the season with a musical globe-trot. Virtuoso Anne Akiko Meyers plays Marquez’s mariachi-inspired Violin Concerto.

Ravel’s Boléro

New World Center

While he’s rightly credited as helping to invent classical Minimalism, Philip Glass’ artistic vision is robust enough to include music of deep beauty and poignant melancholy that touches lifelong fans and the classical-curious alike. With his Violin Concerto No. 1, he composed a piece he thought his father would like—he even made the first three notes “D-A-D.” It’s been called “a wonderful introduction to the composer’s work” (Violinist.com), and the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 2025 recording with Anne Akiko Meyers was hailed by Gramophone for its “sweeping dramatic curves and classical dimensions.” Meyers reprises her role here.

Handler Conducts Philip Glass

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Surging with electricity, myth, and raw orchestral power, this concert is part one of the Reno Phil’s Gillemot Foundation Music & Space Festival. At the center is Blue Electra by Michael Daugherty, a high-voltage violin concerto inspired by the life and mysterious disappearance of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. Written for and premiered by Anne Akiko Meyers, the work fuses amplified violin, driving rhythms, and striking orchestral color, reflecting Earhart’s daring spirit and unfinished final flight. That same elemental intensity expands outward into the vast, immersive universe of Gustav Holst’s The Planets, a triumph of orchestration, where driving momentum, massive forces, and stark contrasts create one of the most visceral experiences in the symphonic repertoire. Paired with stunning artistic multimedia projections, you won’t want to miss this concert.

Violinist

Anne Akiko Meyers

Events

Upcoming events

3 - 4 Oct, 2026

Ravel’s Boléro · New World Symphony

12 - 13 Mar, 2027

Handler Conducts Philip Glass · Los Angeles Philharmonic

20 - 21 Mar, 2027

The Planets · Reno Philharmonic Orchestra

Past events

Aug 12, 2026

Dvořák New World Symphony · Grant Park Music Festival

Jan 18, 2026

Anne Akiko Meyers, violin | Jason Vieaux, guitar · Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival

Future and recently performed repertoire

Violin in Oblivion by Piazzolla

Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival

Violin in Violin Concerto No. 1 by Glass

Grant Park Music Festival

Violin in Blue Electra by Daugherty

Hawai‘i Symphony Orchestra

Violin in Suite italienne by Stravinsky

Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival

Violin in Violin Concerto by Barber

Waco Symphony Orchestra

Violin in Violin Concerto by Márquez

New World Symphony

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