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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...

03 Sep 2018

Midori Joins the Violin Faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music

With the beginning of the fall semester in early September 2018, Midori joined the Violin Faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Announcing her appointment, Curtis President Roberto Diaz said, "A soloist renowned worldwide who pairs her international performing schedule with a commitment to community collaboration and outreach,...

23 Jun 2018

Midori performs Leonard Bernstein’s ‘Serenade after Plato’s Symposium’ in commemoration of the composer’s centenary

photo: (c) Walter H. Scott On August 25th 2018, Midori will perform a movement of Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade after Plato’s Symposium at the Bernstein Centenary Celebration at Tanglewood in Massachusetts, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Other performers will include Yo-Yo Ma, Audra McDonald, Thomas Hampson, Christoph Eschenbach and...

18 Jun 2018

Application deadline to join Midori for the 2018/2019 ICEP in Vietnam and Japan is July 2

Violinists, violists and cellists wishing to apply for Midori's 2018/2019 International Community Engagement Program (ICEP) must complete and deliver their applications by 5 p.m. (Japan time) Monday July 2nd. Young musicians between the ages of 20 and 30 with a strong interest in community engagement are eligible to participate.The ICEP Quartet...

18 May 2018

Midori visits refugee shelter in Berlin

Midori in refugee house in Berlin 5 2018

In early May, when Midori was in Berlin to perform with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester and Constantinos Carydis, she and a violist and cellist from the orchestra visited a community shelter in Hanjerystrasse that houses refugee women and children from Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Iraq, Eritrea and Ethiopia. The musicians performed works...