Midori’s tour with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (February 2025)
Violinist and UN Messenger of Peace Midori is known for her global humanitarian work: At the end of 2024, Midori‘s foundation work took her to Nepal, where she was guest with her organization ICEP (International Community Engagement Program) with three young musicians. 2025 begins for Midori in Europe in February with a tour of Spain with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande – after two send-off concerts in Geneva, the tour takes them to Madrid, Zaragoza, Barcelona, Las Palmas and Tenerife where Midori will present Sibelius’ Violin Concerto.
Further highlights in spring 2025 include duo recitals with pianist Özgür Aydin in North America in March, followed by Midori playing Detlev Glanert’s 2nd Violin Concerto To the Immortal Beloved in April, first in Nürnberg with the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg and then on a tour of Germany with the Bundesjugendorchester at Osterfestspiele Baden-Baden, Cologne, and Berlin, among others.
Further duo performances with Özgür Aydin in Rotterdam, Pamplona and Bilbao will follow later in the year in May, as well as a guest performance with the Deutsche Sinfonie-Orchester with Dvořák’s Violin Concerto in June at the Berlin Philharmonie.
Following a busy August of concerto and recital appearances at the Tanglewood, Aspen and Edinburgh festivals and the Hollywood Bowl, Midori embarked on her 2024/2025 season, highlights of which include:
• A week at the Krzyzowa Chamber Music Festival in Poland, helping to celebrate its 10th anniversary;
• Recording Spring Cadenzas, a work composed by Derek Bermel for her Orchestra Residencies Program, with the Boston-based ensemble A Far Cry and its Project STEP students;
• Recital tours to Turkey, India and Sri Lanka, among others;
• Concerto appearances with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Andris Nelsons in Vienna and on tour to Korea and Japan and with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Jonathan Nott on tour in Spain;
• “Hope Concerts” in Ishikawa, Japan, to support victims of the January 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake with pianist Mao Fujita;
• International Community Engagement Project (ICEP) in Nepal with three young string players;
• Recitals in the U.S. with pianist Özgür Aydin in Boston, New York San Francisco and Los Angeles, among others in the spring of 2025. The recital program is a musical reflection on suffering and loss inspired by Federico García Lorca’s poem Casida of the Lament represented in works by Poulenc, Brahms and Ravel and the premiere of Spirituals by Che Buford;
• Recording works by Robert Schumann
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