(Photo/Moises Encino) Midori travelled to Mexico with her University of Southern California students over the winter break. There they performed at a music academy, a community music school, an orphanage, a convent, a juvenile hall and a reservation. Read about their experience and how Midori encourages her students to reach out to non-traditional...
The February 2017 issue of Strings Magazine features a two-page review by Arts and Culture journalist Cristina Schreil of Midori's recent performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of Louis Langrée. ...
Midori’s recording of Peter Eötvös’s Violin Concerto DoReMi – written for and dedicated to Midori and released on Alpha Records, together with Eötvös’ Cello Concerto Grosso and Speaking Drums – has been announced as one of three finalists of ICMA’s Audio and Video Awards 2017 in the Contemporary section. The finalists were whittled...
The International Community Engagement Program (ICEP) this year is taking place in Nepal and a string quartet consisting of Midori, violinist Jeremias Sergiani-Velásques, violist Wenhong Luo and cellist Michael Katz met and rehearsed in Tokyo before flying to Kathmandu with their tour coordinator Chad Cannon. The purpose of the ICEP, one...
Following her highly-praised performances of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas in Aspen, Colorado and various cities in Germany in the summer of 2016, Midori played the works in their entirety at Köthen Castle (Schloss Köthen) in August for an audio-visual recording by Accentus Music in co-production with NHK and...