MIDORI | NEWS

10 Jun 2019

Masterclasses, workshops and performances in the summer of 2019

Midori takes part in several festivals and workshops in the summer of 2019: She performs Dvořák’s Violin Concerto with the World Youth Symphony Orchestra under conductor Mei-Ann Chen at the Interlochen Center for the Arts (Michigan, USA) and the same concerto at the Domaine Forget International Festival in Québec (Canada) with the Orchestre symphonique...

26 May 2019

Midori to participate in the Starling-DeLay Symposium for Violin Studies at Juilliard

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Midori will give a master class as part of the 10th biennial Starling-DeLay Symposium for Violin Studies, which takes place at Juilliard between May 28th and June 1st. In addition to master classes, the symposium includes recitals, pedagogy sessions and opportunities for participants to observe and explore how to nurture and develop...

01 Apr 2019

Midori and Jean-Yves Thibaudet team up for their first tour

Midori and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet will tour in April for the first time with a recital program of sonatas by Schumann, Fauré, Debussy and Enescu. The tour includes dates in Scottsdale, Arizona, San Francisco and La Jolla, California, Chicago, Illinois and Princeton, New Jersey. The La Jolla concert will take place at the...

14 Feb 2019

Midori performs for Pope Francis and other world leaders in Rome and urges them to believe in the power of women and girls in remote rural communities

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Photos (c) IFAD Midori performed the Preludio from Bach’s Partita No. 3 in E Major for solo violin at the Annual Meeting of IFAD, the United Nation's International Fund for Agricultural Development, and made a speech in which she called on Pope Francis and other world leaders...

14 Dec 2018

Midori travels through Vietnam in December 2018 with MUSIC SHARING’s International Community Engagement Program (ICEP)

Every year in the second half of December, ICEP brings Western classical music into regions in Asia with limited exposure to it. From December 18 to 27 2018, ICEP’s touring string quartet performs and interacts with Vietnamese residents in schools - including music schools - orphanages, hospitals and schools for...