Featured Performers

• Anne Akiko Meyers, violin
• Bogang Hwang, piano
• Matthew Howard, drums, marimba
• Nathan Farrington, double bass

Program

• PIAZZOLLA: L’histoire du Tango 
• CHOPIN: Prelude in E minor, Op. 28, No. 4
• ALKAN: Le festin d'Ésope (Aesop's Feast), Op. 39, No. 12
• SAINT-SAËNS: The Swan
• VILLA-LOBOS: The Song of the Black Swan

• SAINT-SAËNS (reimagined by Gene Pritsker): Animals Carnaval based on Carnival of the Animals

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

Limited tickets available for day-of sales. To check day-of availability, you may go to the Laguna Playhouse starting at 1:30pm.

Anne Akiko Meyers brings the 2024 Laguna Beach Music Festival to a close with “Carnival!” 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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