Featured Performers

• Anne Akiko Meyers, violin
• Fabio Bidini, piano
• Matthew Howard, drums, marimba
• Nathan Farrington, double bass

Program

• PIAZZOLLA: L’histoire du Tango 
• CHOPIN: Prelude in E-minor, Op. 28, No. 4
• CHOPIN: Andante Spianato & Polonaise
• SAINT-SAËNS: The Swan
• VILLA-LOBOS: The Song of the Black Swan

• SAINT-SAËNS (arr. Gene Pritsker): Carnival of the Animals

A co-presentation of Laguna Beach Live! and the Philharmonic Society of Orange County

Anne Akiko Meyers brings the 2024 Laguna Beach Music Festival to a delightful close with “Carnaval!” pairing Ástor Piazzolla’s nostalgic homage to the tango genre, L'histoire du Tango, with a new arrangement of Camille Saint-Saëns’ whimsical Carnival of the Animals. 

There is an old-world glamour to Ms. Akiko Meyers’s playing, with her high-gloss, singing sound and her liberal use of sighing slides from one note to another….in the most hazardous tempo changes and transitions their interaction was impressively relaxed.

The New York Times

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