Anne Akiko Meyers | Smile featured-presenter Commissioned in 2005 by the

Commissioned in 2005 by the Cologne-based Ensemble Musikfabrik and BAM's Next Wave Festival

Featuring seven songs of social and personal import drawn from Simone’s celebrated songbook

and Ravel

featuring duets with Cecilia Bartoli

the US premiere of the Messiaen Fantaisie

Anne Akiko Meyers | Smile featured-presenter Commissioned in 2005 by theViolinist Anne Akiko Meyers, with pianist Akira Eguchi, turns her renowned talents to Schuberts Fantasy in C Major, Op. 159; Arvo Prts Spiegel im Spiegel; the US premiere of the Messiaen Fantaisie; Piazzollas Introduccion Et Angel and Milonga en Re, Tango; two ravishing arrangements of traditional Japanese folk songs, Kj no Tsuki (Moonlight Over the Ruined Castle) and Haru no Umi (Sea in Spring); and startlingly personal renditions of Somewhere Over