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4. February 2025

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.

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13. November 2024

Midori and Mao Fujita perform a concert for the victims of the Noto Peninsula earthquake in Japan (November 2024)

Violinist Midori and pianist Mao Fujita will perform in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan on November 13th and 14th to support the Noto Peninsula Earthquake Disaster Relief Project.

On January 1, 2024, the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa was struck by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake, causing widespread devastation throughout the region. In memory of all those affected and those working tirelessly to support the relief efforts there, the performance series entitled “HOPE” is intended for people in the affected region to share a moment of healing through music.

The program includes both solo and duo works by Beethoven, Mozart, Bach and Franck.

14. October 2024

Midori’s 2024/2025 season (October 24)

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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4. October 2024

Midori with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra October 18 – 20 (October 2024)

Violinist Midori will be performing with the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of Andris Nelsons on October 18, 19 and 20, this time with Sergei Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1. Midori will also take this program with the orchestra to Seoul (23 October), Nagoya (8 November) and Tokyo (12 & 15 November).
On February 20, 2020, she last appeared with the Vienna Philharmonic in Schumann’s Violin Concerto at the Musikverein with Christoph Eschenbach, on the occasion of his 80th birthday.

October 18, 7.30 pm, Konzerthaus Vienna
October 19 3.30 pm, Musikverein Vienna
October 20, 11.00 a.m., Musikverein Vienna

A former child prodigy, she began her worldwide career at the age of 11 when she performed with the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta at Carnegie Hall. Today she tours over five continents as a soloist with leading orchestras or for chamber music recitals, commissions compositions from international composers, is active as a U.N. peace ambassador and heads four of her own foundations, which have been dedicated to educational, social and musical exchange for 20 years, including working in international hotspots. In December, for example, Midori will be in Bangladesh with her foundation ICEP ((International Community Engagement Program). The project brings musical performances to “Least Developed Countries” every year; Bangladesh is the most populous country in this group. For two weeks, Midori and three young musicians will visit social institutions such as children’s homes, schools for the blind and hospitals.
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Upcoming concerts

October 18 Vienna, Konzerthaus
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Prokofiev: 1st Violin Concerto
Andris Nelsons, conductor

October 19 & 20 Vienna, Musikverein
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Prokofiev: 1st Violin Concerto
Andris Nelsons, conductor

October 23 Seoul, Seoul Arts Center
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Prokofiev: 1st Violin Concerto
Andris Nelsons, conductor

October 31 Cologne, Kölner Philharmonie
Gürzenich Orchestra
Bartók: 2nd Violin Concerto
Joshua Weilerstein, conductor

November 8 Nagoya Aichi Prefectural Hall, Japan
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Prokofiev: 1st Violin Concerto
Andris Nelsons, conductor

November 12 & 15 Tokio, Suntory Hall, Japan
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Prokofiev: 1st Violin Concerto
Andris Nelsons, conductor

31. July 2024

Midori’s first season as Artistic Director of the Ravinia Steans Music Institute’s Program for Piano & Strings (July 2024)

Violinist Midori oversaw from June 22 to July 25 the Ravinia Steans Music Institute’s Program for Piano & Strings in her first season as artistic director. Midori oversaw the distinguished program for piano and string players that focuses on interpretation and small group collaboration through practice and performance of classical sonata and chamber repertoire. The Steans Music Institute is located in Highland Park, Illinois.

Over two dozen violinists, violists, cellists and pianists gathered for five weeks of intensive rehearsals and coaching under the guidance of Midori and a rotating roster of some of renowned artists and pedagogues.

On July 6, Midori and other artists of the program joined in a concert combining Beethoven’s String Trio No 4 and Schumann’s Piano Quintet with Timo Andres’s Piano Trio (commissioned by the Ravinia Steans Music Institute in 2018) and Carlos Simon’s where two or three are gathered.

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1. July 2024

Midori’s ICEP Activities and Public Concerts in Japan (July 2024)

In December 2023, Midori was joined by violinist Ellinor D’Melon, violist Hiroki Kasai and cellist Alejandro Gomez-Pareja for a week of activities at schools, hospitals, vocational centers and cultural centers in Laos through her International Community Engagement Program (ICEP).

In a follow-up to the Laos ICEP, the four musicians met up again in Japan in June 2024 for two weeks filled with visits to schools, hospitals and other institutions in Osaka, Wakayama, Aomori and Gunma, among other places – and for public concerts in Tokyo and Osaka.

23. May 2024

Midori performs Dvořák’s Violin Concerto in Amsterdam and Antwerp (May 2024)

Midori performs on May 24 and 25 at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and in Antwerp with Dvorak’s Violin Concerto conducted by Elim Chan. The Antwerp Symphony Orchestra will be playing. At the beginning of May she was in the USA as part of her Orchestra Residencies Program and in June she will be touring in Japan with her foundation ICEP (International Community Engagement Program).

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May 24 Amsterdam, Concertgebouw
Antwerp Symphony Orchestra
Dvořák: Violin Concerto in A minor op. 53
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in c minor, op. 68

May 25 Antwerp, Queen Elisabeth Hall
Antwerp Symphony Orchestra
Dvořák: Violin Concerto in A minor op. 53
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in c minor, op. 68

5. February 2024

Midori’s concert at the beginning of 2024 (February 2024)

Midori begins the new year with two performances of Detlef Glanert’s Violin Concerto No. 2 An die Unsterbliche Geliebte: in January with the NDR Radiophilharmonie and Andrew Manze and in February with the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, which co-commissioned the work. You can listen to the concert with the NDR Radiophilharmonie here for a year.

Other highlights in spring 2024 include concerts with the KBS Symphony in Seoul, with the Solistes Européens Luxembourg at the Luxembourg Philharmonie, a Schumann Violin Concerto recording at the KKL with the Festival Strings Lucerne, duo recitals in the USA and South America and guest appearances in Amsterdam, Prague, Wiesbaden and Dresden.

Midori’s recording of Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade for violin, strings, harp and percussion with the WDR Symphony Orchestra conducted by Constantinos Carydis is still available to listen to and watch on YouTube:

 

21. November 2023

Midori plays Bernsteins Serenade: WDR Concert-Stream (November 2023)

Here you can watch Midori’s recent concert in Germany: Bernstein’s Serenade for violin, strings, harp and percussion with the WDR Symphony Orchestra and Constantinos Carydis recorded on September 22 at Cologne Philharmonie is now available on YouTube and on the WDR Symphony Orchestra’s website.

 

Midori just finished her US tour with the Festival Strings Lucerne having played in Atlanta, Iowa City, San Francisco and Santa Barbara, among others. Her next stop is Korea: she will perform Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in Seoul on November 25 .

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