Midori’s performs violin concerti by Bartók and Prokofiev at the Aspen (Colorado) and Tanglewood (Massachusetts) festivals respectively and the Dvořák concerto at the Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles).

At the Edinburgh International Festival in Scotland, her recital with pianist Özgür Aydin features works by Mozart, Fauré and Richard Strauss.

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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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.