22nd Annual Laguna Beach Music Festival

Schedule:

Friday, February 16, 2024

8:00 p.m: Lbmf Opening Night: Metamorphoses

Featured Performers:
Anne Akiko Meyers, violin
Emmanuel Ceysson, harp
Madison Olandt, dancer
Madison Falconer, choreographer

Program:
Michio Miyagi: Haru no Umi  (The Sea in Spring)
Jakub Ciupi?ski: Wreck of the Umbria
Smetana: Má vlast : The Moldau, Op. 43
Philip Glass: Metamorphosis II
Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel
Saint-Saëns: The Swan (choreography by Madison Falconer)
Villa-Lobos: Song of the Black Swan
Philip Glass: New Chaconne (world premiere)

The 22nd annual Laguna Beach Music Festival features violinist Anne Akiko Meyers. One of the world’s most esteemed violinists, Anne Akiko Meyers has been described as "a musical wizard, with astonishing access to every kind of expressive color" (San Diego Union-Tribune).

Anne Akiko Meyers creates a "beautiful sonic world full of color and movement and breath" in her Opening Night Program: "Metamorphoses," featuring new premieres of arrangements for violin-harp as well as violin-electronics.

Saturday, February 17, 2024

8:00 p.m: Lbmf: Doubles

Featured Performers:
Anne Akiko Meyers, violin
Aubree Oliverson, violin
Colburn Academy Virtuosi

Program
Handel-Halvorsen (arr. Heifetz): Passacaglia
Bach: Double Concerto in D minor
Philip Glass: Echorus
Fanny Mendelssohn: String Quartet (arr. for strings)

Joined by violinist Aubree Oliverson, Anne Akiko Meyers shares a Program titled "Doubles," which features the fiery interplay of two violins in works such as Bach’s Double Violin Concerto and Handel-Halvorsen-Heifetz’ Passacaglia. The yearning melodies of Philip Glass’ Echorus and Fanny Mendelssohn’s soulful String Quartet bring the Program to a close.

The Colburn School’s Academy Virtuosi is an elite conductorless chamber orchestra comprised of talented young musicians from the Music Academy.

Sunday, February 18, 2024

3:00 p.m: Lbmf: Carnaval

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 and Polonaise
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

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.

Date: February 16 - 18, 2024

Location:

Laguna Playhouse
606 Laguna Canyon Road
Laguna Beach, CA 92651

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