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...
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...
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...
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...
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...