Sakura MyersAn artist with “hands of steel, a heart of lava, and courage of a lion” (Dr. Cornell West), SAKURA most recently made her debut with the New Jersey Symphony under the baton of Mark Laycock, performing J.S. Bach’s Piano Concerto for Four Pianos BMW1065. She has captivated audiences throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia in such distinguished venues as Carnegie’s Weil Recital Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and Steinway Hall. With innovative programming that seeks to cross pollinate varying musical styles, SAKURA continues to cultivate a new, untapped audience among the most unlikely of listeners.
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Second place winner of the Josef Suk International Piano Competition in Prague, Czech Republic and winner of the Rising Star Award for her artistic excellence and creative merit as a concert pianist from the Thomas Study Music Guild, SAKURA is a young emerging concert artist whose "intensity and stellar technique" inspire soulful performances leaving audiences indelibly spellbound. With "profound power", she communicates incisively and challenges concert goers with her daring sense of style.
SAKURA has performed as a guest artist to the "Ebony and Ivory Recital Series" during the inaugural season for "The Colour of Music Festival" in Charleston, SC. As a festival that seeks to promote the works of African-American composers, SAKURA presented a spiritually provocative program, where listeners were taken on an introspective journey from the works of Arvo Pärt to the works of the acclaimed African-American composer and arranger Joseph Joubert. In New York, SAKURA had the honor of opening for the Three Mo' Tenors, presenting a cool arrangement of Paganini’s 24th Caprice, Variations on a Theme of Paganini arranged entirely in the jazz idiom by Alexander Rosenblatt.
In her pursuit to translate the beauty, intellect and brilliance of Western Classical Music in non-traditional events, SAKURA played with singer Sumayya Ali for the debut collection of New York based designer Nzinga Knight at New York’s Fashion Week, performing an all new arrangement of Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise. SAKURA also acted alongside Clarke Peters and Colman Domingo in Spike Lee’s “Red Hook Summer” (2012). She is currently a student of Robert Durso.
SAKURA has performed as a guest artist to the "Ebony and Ivory Recital Series" during the inaugural season for "The Colour of Music Festival" in Charleston, SC. As a festival that seeks to promote the works of African-American composers, SAKURA presented a spiritually provocative program, where listeners were taken on an introspective journey from the works of Arvo Pärt to the works of the acclaimed African-American composer and arranger Joseph Joubert. In New York, SAKURA had the honor of opening for the Three Mo' Tenors, presenting a cool arrangement of Paganini’s 24th Caprice, Variations on a Theme of Paganini arranged entirely in the jazz idiom by Alexander Rosenblatt.
In her pursuit to translate the beauty, intellect and brilliance of Western Classical Music in non-traditional events, SAKURA played with singer Sumayya Ali for the debut collection of New York based designer Nzinga Knight at New York’s Fashion Week, performing an all new arrangement of Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise. SAKURA also acted alongside Clarke Peters and Colman Domingo in Spike Lee’s “Red Hook Summer” (2012). She is currently a student of Robert Durso.