MIDORI | NEWS

26 Feb 2018

“Midori plays Bach” on the German Record Critics’ Award’s Quarterly Critics’ Choice List (February 2018)

The DVD “Midori Plays Bach”, released by Accentus in October 2017, was included in the German Record Critics’ Award’s Quarterly Critics’ Choice List for the first quarter of 2018 in the category of “Concert & Documentary serious music”. An excerpt from the critics’ statement: "This DVD does not simply present a recorded...

18 Jan 2018

Midori, Antoine Lederlin and Jonathan Biss perform trios in Germany and the UK

Audiences and critics in Ansbach, Stuttgart, Munich, Halle and London warmly welcomed Midori, pianist Jonathan Biss and cellist Antoine Lederlin in a program featuring Beethoven’s Piano Trio in G major, Op.1 No.2, Schumann’s Fantasiestücke, Op.88, and Dvořák’s Piano Trio in F minor, Op.65. Early in the tour, the German radio station...

26 Dec 2017

2017 International Community Engagement Program in India

Midori is in India with violinist Elina Buksha, violist Benjamin Beck and cellist Stanislas Kim for the 2017 instalment Music Sharing's International Community Engagement Program. Elina, Benjamin and Stanislas are all first-time ICEP participants. You can read more about them here . The musicians rehearsed in Cologne in mid-December before flying...

28 Oct 2017

Midori visits families at a camp for victims of the September earthquake in Mexico, gives a master class and raises funds for a new music school

On October 25, the day before her public recital at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Midori and pianist Ieva Jocubaviciute presented a private concert at the Centro Cultural Teopanzolco in Cuernavaca, Morelos, to help raise funds to build homes nearby and also to rebuild an old railway...

27 Jun 2017

Midori will join the Curtis Institute of Music Violin Faculty beginning with the 2018-19 school year

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The Curtis Institute of Music, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, announced today that Midori will join its violin faculty. She will visit the school several times during the 2017-18 school year to give master classes, attend student-centered activities and work with students participating in its community engagement programs. She will become a faculty...