Year in Pictures 2008    
       
 

In Des Moines Iowa for ORP. After the Chamber Music Masterclass with the Bellissima Ragazze String Quartet (January 2008) (photo: courtesy of Des Moines Youth Symphonies)
 

In Sioux Falls, South Dakota for ORP. Surrounded by student musicians. (April 2008) (photo: Gene Smith)
     


Meet & Greet in Suntory Hall, Tokyo Japan. (May 2008) (photo: OFFICE GOTO CO., LTD.)

 

  

Midori visited the HBC Junior Orchestra for Music Sharing's Orchestra Visit Program (June 2008) in Hokkaido, Japan. (photo: Music Sharing)
     
In Osaka, Japan. Midori and the young musicians from Music Sharing's International Community Engagement Program 'ICEP' 2007 Cambodia. (June 2008) (photo: T. Oda)
  

Midori presents on the topic of children and their welfare in Cambodia during the Music Sharing "ICEP 2007 Cambodia" Reporting Concert. (June 2008) (photo: T. Oda)
     
In Ooizumi Town, Gunma, Japan. School presentation with the young musicians from ICEP 2007 at Ooizumi North Elementary School for a Music Sharing "New School Visit Program". (June 2008) (photo: Music Sharing)
 
In Ooizumi Town, Gunma, Japan. School Presentation (June 2008) for a Music Sharing "New School Visit Program". (photo: Music Sharing)
     

In Saitama, Japan for a Music Sharing Junior Orchestra Program. With members from the Soka Junior Fiddlers (June 2008) (photo: Music Sharing)
 

Rehearsing with pianist Jonathan Biss and cellist Johannes Moser. (August 2008) (photo: Marcos Klorman)
     

Midori, Jonathan, and Johannes at rehearsal (August 2008) (photo: Marcos Klorman)
 


At the UN Headquarters in New York. Participating in the International Day of Peace led by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. (photo: courtesy United Nations Department of Public Information)
     

At the UN Headquarters. (photo: courtesy of United Nations Department of Public Information)
 

Door sign at USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles, CA.
     

With one of the students at USC Thornton.
 

Los Angeles Downtown
     

School Presentation during a Midori & Friends Adventure Concert Series in New York City. (Nov. 2008) (photo: Julie Lemberger)
 

Violin Masterclass at the Idyllwild Arts Academy. (Nov. 2008) (photo: courtesy of Idyllwild Arts Academy)
     

Midori with students of the Music Academy in Asahigawaso, Okayama, Japan. The Music Academy and Music Sharing collaborate in a program to give instrumental instruction to children with disabilities. (Dec. 2008) (photo: OFFICE GOTO CO., LTD.)
 

Midori at USC Thornton.
     
 
         

Other honorees this year at the New Yorker for New York Awards Dinner, to be held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, include Robert DeNiro (New Yorker for New York Award), "Hank" Greenberg (Brooke Russell Astor Award for Philanthropy) and Arthur Ross (Marietta Tree Award for Public Service).