About Me
Born and raised in New York City, seventeen-year-old Irish-American violist Liam Meyers is a student at the Special Music School and a recurring full-scholarship student in The Juilliard School Pre-College Division, where he studies with Carol Rodland. Grounded in both solo and ensemble traditions, Liam is committed to pursuing music as a means of artistic excellence, leadership, and cultural engagement.
Liam has performed internationally in major venues across the United States and Europe, including in New York, Boston, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Greece, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. His performances have included appearances on the Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall, and his work has been featured on National Public Radio, New York Public Media, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, CBS, WNYC, and The Violin Channel. In 2026, he was nationally profiled on NPR’s From the Top as a recipient of the $10,000 Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award, a prestigious national scholarship recognizing exceptional promise in pre-collegiate musicians.
An active orchestral musician, Liam is a violist with the Grammy Award–winning and Billboard #1 New York Youth Symphony and has served as Principal Violist of the Prague Piano and the New York Youth Symphony’s 2024 Tour of Greece, and the Fesztivál Akadémia Budapest. He was the youngest American artist selected to participate in the 10th Fesztivál Akadémia Budapest, one of Europe’s most prestigious classical music festivals. Hismusical training has included additional studies with Michelle LaCourse at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute.
As a collaborative artist, Liam has performed alongside musicians including Maxim Vengerov, Augustin Hadelich, Wilfried Strehle, Simone Dinnerstein, Andreas Ottensamer, members of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, the Harlem Quartet, and the Grammy and Emmy Award–winning ensemble Time for Three. In recognition of his artistic development, he was named an Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra Outstanding Young Musician in 2024, a Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Gold Key winner in 2025, and a National YoungArts Winner in 2026.
Beyond performance, Liam is deeply engaged in arts leadership and advocacy. He serves as Director of Global Operations for the Back to BACH Project, the world’s largest student-led arts accessibility organization, and as an Ambassador for the Kaufman Music Center. He is also the Founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Ragtime, one of New York City’s largest student-run high school newspapers, and holds elected leadership roles as Student Government Co-President and Debate Team Co-President at Special Music School High School.