About Me
Liam Meyers, 18 years old, is an Irish-American violist born and raised in New York City. He is a graduate of both Special Music School High School and the Juilliard Pre-College, where he studied on full scholarship with pedagogue Carol Rodland.
Praised as a player of “deep maturity” who commands a “full, burnished, unfashionably generous sound” (The Front Row Center), Liam has performed in halls throughout New York, Boston, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Greece, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, including the Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage of New York’s Carnegie Hall. Violist of the Billboard#1 and Grammy Award-winning New York Youth Symphony, Liam 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 Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award, a prestigious national scholarship for pre-collegiate musicians with exceptional promise.
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 String Festival, 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.
An avid chamber musician, he has collaborated with artists such as Itzhak Perlman, Maxim Vengerov, Augustin Hadelich, Wilfried Strehle, Simone Dinnerstein, and Andreas Ottensamer. Liam was the youngest American artist selected to participate in the
Fesztivál Akadémia Budapest and has served as Principal Violist of the VI & VII Prague Piano and String Festival. He has also studied at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute and was invited as a full-scholarship participant to the Perlman Music Program, widely regarded as one of the most selective string training programs in the world.
Liam serves as Director of Global Operations at the Back to BACH Project—the world’s largest student-led arts advocacy organization—and is an Ambassador to the Kaufman Music Center. He is the Founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Ragtime, the nation’s most prolific per-student high school publication, and served as elected Student Government Co-President and Debate Team Co-President at Special Music School High School. Liam is an Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra Outstanding Young Musician, a National Medalist of the 2026 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and a National 2026 YoungArts Winner in Classical Music.
In the fall, Liam will pursue his Bachelor’s Degree at Yale College.