In 2017, he retired from his post as principal horn of the New York Philharmonic and remains active as a soloist worldwide.
He attended Carnegie Mellon University from 1967 to 1971, where he studied French horn with the renowned Forrest Standley.
During the summers of 1970 and 1971, Myers attended the Blossom Festival, where he studied music with the principal horn of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, Myron Bloom.
Myers is on the faculty at the Haute École de Musique, part of the Lausanne Conservatory in Fribourg, Switzerland.
[2] Myers released his first solo CD under Cala Records in 1998, which features music by Leonard Bernstein and David Amram, among others.