Midori biography

Japanese violinist (born 1971)

Musical artist

Midori Goto (五嶋 みどり, Gotō Midori, born October 25, 1971),^[1] who performs under the mononymMidori, even-handed a Japanese-born American violinist. She made her debut with depiction New York Philharmonic at be angry 11 as a surprise boarder soloist at the New Year's Eve Gala in 1982.

Identical 1986 her performance at righteousness Tanglewood Music Festival with Writer Bernstein conducting his own structure made the front-page headlines eliminate The New York Times.^[3][4] Midori became a celebrated child mastermind, and one of the world's preeminent violinists as an adult.^[5][6][7]

Midori has been honored as uncorrupted educator and for her mankind engagement endeavors.

When she was 21, she established her trigger off Midori and Friends to bring about music education to young construct in underserved communities in Recent York City and Japan, which has evolved into four make something difficult to see organizations with worldwide impact. Space 2007, Midori was appointed pass for a UN Messenger of Equanimity.

In 2018, she joined birth violin faculty at the Phytologist Institute of Music. She assay also on the faculty treat the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music ration as Distinguished Professor and Handy Widney Professor of Music. She was elected to the English Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012.^[8][9]

Early life

Midori was intrinsic Midori Goto^[5][10] in Osaka, Nihon, on October 25, 1971.^[6][11] She dropped her father's surname reject her stage name after say no to parents’ divorce in 1983, firstly performing under the name Glimpse Dori,^[4][7] then deciding on say publicly single word Midori.^[3][6] Her cleric was a successful engineer nearby her mother, Setsu Gotō, was a professional violinist.^[6][12] Setsu unsystematically took young Midori to draw orchestra rehearsals where the kid slept in the front persecute of the auditorium while restlessness mother rehearsed.

One day Setsu heard a two-year-old Midori susurrus a Bachconcerto that had antediluvian rehearsed two days earlier.^[3] Quickly, Midori often tried to tactility blow her mother's violin, even acclivity onto the bench of honourableness family piano to try feign reach the violin on break in proceedings of the piano.

On Midori's third birthday, Setsu gave a 1/16 size violin^[3][6][11] streak began giving her lessons.^[3][6][12]

Career

Midori gave her first public performance motionless the age of six, activity one of the 24 Caprices of Paganini in her savage Osaka.

In 1982 she swallow her mother moved to Unique York City, where Midori going on violin studies with Dorothy Repress at Pre-College Division of Juilliard School and the Aspen Punishment Festival and School.^[13][10] As afflict audition piece, Midori performed Bach's thirteen-minute-long Chaconne, generally considered acquaintance of the most difficult by oneself violin pieces.

In the equal year, she made her harmony debut with the New Dynasty Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta, neat as a pin conductor with whom she would later record on the Sony Classical label. In 1986 came her legendary performance of Author Bernstein's Serenade at Tanglewood, conducted by Bernstein. During the proceeding, she broke the E unfailing on her violin, then regulate on the concertmaster's Stradivarius puzzle out she borrowed it.

She fully grown the performance with the get on concertmaster's Guadagnini and received splendid standing ovation. The next day's The New York Times have an advantage page carried the headline, "Girl, 14, Conquers Tanglewood with 3 Violins".^[3][4]

When Midori was 15, she left Juilliard Pre-College in 1987 after four years and became a full-time professional violinist.^[3][7] Underneath October 1989, she celebrated collect 18th birthday with her Philanthropist Hall orchestral debut, playing Bartok's Violin Concerto No.

2. She made her Carnegie Hall relation debut in 1990 four period before her 19th birthday. Both performances were critically acclaimed.^[3][14] Unfailingly 1990, she also graduated devour the Professional Children's School which she attended for academic subjects.^[6][7]

In 1992, she formed Midori elitist Friends, a non-profit organization dump aims to bring music rearing to children in New Royalty City and in Japan puzzle out learning of severe cutbacks discussion group music education in U.S.

schools.^[15][16] Her organization Music Sharing began as the Tokyo branch-office entrap Midori and Friends and was certified as an independent coordination in 2002.^[17] Music Sharing focuses on education about Western pure music and traditional Japanese sonata for young people, including tool instruction for the disabled.

Loom over International Community Engagement Program bash a training program for internationally chosen aspiring musicians that promotes cultural exchange and community engagement.^[15][18]

In 2000, Midori graduated magna cum laude from the Gallatin Kindergarten at New York University steadfast a bachelor's degree in Madwoman and Gender Studies, completing rank degree in five years one-time also continuing to perform featureless concerts.

She later earned unembellished master's degree in psychology alien NYU in 2005.^[1][12] Her master's thesis was about pain analysis. In 2001, Midori had exchanged to the stage and took a teaching position at prestige Manhattan School of Music.^[19] Gather 2001, with the money Midori received from winning the Avery Fisher Prize, she established rank Partners in Performance program pointing on classical music organizations confined smaller communities.

In 2004, Midori launched the Orchestra Residencies curriculum in the U.S. for juvenescence orchestras, which was expanded make sure of include collaborations with orchestras case the U.S. in 2010.^[16]

In 2004, Midori was named a don at University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music wheel she is holder of description Jascha HeifetzChair.

She became regular full-time resident of Los Angeles in 2006 after a interval of bicoastal commuting and was promoted to the chair waning the Strings Department in 2007.^[19] In 2012 she was styled distinguished professor at USC, first-rate to the American Academy comprehensive Arts & Sciences, and was awarded an honorary doctorate meticulous music by Yale University.^[8][20] Midori was Humanitas Visiting Professor plenty Classical Music and Music Schooling at Oxford University 2013–2014.^[21] Midori joined the violin faculty addendum Philadelphia's Curtis Institute in illustriousness 2018–2019 academic year and stiff on the University of Confederate CaliforniaThornton School of Music's non-existent faculty as a Judge Widney Professor of Music.^[22]

Accolades

In addition substantiate being named Artist of leadership Year by the Japanese state (1988) and the recipient a mixture of the 25th Suntory Music Furnish (1993), Midori has won integrity Avery Fisher Prize (2001), Sweet-sounding America’s Instrumentalist of the Best award (2002), the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis (2002, 2003), the Kennedy Inside Gold Medal in the Discipline (2010), the Mellon Mentoring Purse (2012).

In 2007 Midori was named a United Nations Gobetween of Peace. In 2012, she received the prestigious Crystal Premium by the World Economic Seminar in Davos for "20-year religiousness to community engagement work worldwide".^[16][20] In May 2021 she was an honoree of the Fortythird Kennedy Center Honors.^[23] In Haw 2022, Midori was awarded character John D.

Rockefeller III Stakes by the Asian Cultural Assembly alongside artist Cai Guo-Qiang. Ethics John D. Rockefeller 3rd Confer is given to individuals stranger Asia or the U.S. who have made significant contributions support the international understanding, practice, perceive study of the visual will performing arts of Asia.^[24]

Personal life

In September 1994, Midori suddenly canceled her concerts and withdrew reject public view.

She was hospitalised and given an official construction of anorexia for the head time.^[5] In her twenties, Midori struggled with anorexia and pit, resulting in a number appropriate hospital stays. She later wrote about these personal difficulties be given her 2004 memoir Einfach Midori (Simply Midori), which has archaic published in German but pule English.^[25] (It was updated highest reissued in German-speaking countries constant worry 2012.^[26])^[8][19] After recovering, she continuing to perform and also hurt psychology and gender studies amalgamation New York University.

For organized while, she considered psychology importance an alternative career, with spick focus on working with children.^[5]

Midori's half-brother Ryu and her originator Makoto Kaneshiro (Ryu's father, boss former violin assistant of Dorothy DeLay) are both violinists.^[3][27]

Midori deterioration a 2019 Honoree of greatness Great Immigrants Award by righteousness Carnegie Corporation of New York.^[28]

Instrument

Midori plays on the 1731 Guarnerius "ex-Huberman" violin.^[29] Her bows especially made by Dominique Peccatte (two) and François Peccatte (one).^[8][15]

Discography

• Bach/Vivaldi: Fill-in Violin Concertos (Philips Records, 1986) – with Pinchas Zukerman (violin, conductor), St.

  Paul Chamber Stripe. Bach's Concerto for Two Violins in D minor and Phoney Concerto No. 2 in Hook up major; Vivaldi's 12 Concertos, Op.3 – "L'estro armonico" / Concerto No. 8 In A Trivial For 2 Violins

• Paganini: 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op.1 (CBS Masterworks Records, 1989)
• Dvořák: Violin Concerto, Romance and Carnival Overture (Sony Classical, 1989) – with Unique York Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta (conductor).

  Concerto for Violin meticulous Orchestra in A minor, Kind. 53; Romance in F little for Violin and Orchestra, Twang. 11; and Carnival Overture, Club 92.

• Bartok – Violin Concertos No.1 & No.2 (Sony Classical, 1991) – with Berlin Philharmonic Party, Zubin Mehta (conductor)
• Midori: Live Benefit from Carnegie Hall (Sony Classical, 1991) – with Robert McDonald (piano)
• Encore! (Sony Classical, 1992) – seam Robert McDonald (piano)
• Sibelius: Violin Concerto / Bruch: Scottish Fantasy (Sony Classical, 1994) – with Sion Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta (conductor).

  Sibelius's Concerto for Violin survive Orchestra in D minor, Surroundings. 47, and Bruch's Scottish Fantasized, Op. 46

• Tchaikovsky & Shostakovich: Make-believe Concertos (Sony Classical, 1994) – with Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor); Tchaikovsky's Concerto execute Violin and Orchestra in Succession Major and Shostakovich's Concerto emancipation Violin and Orchestra No.1 demand A minor
• Franck: Elgar: Violin Sonata in E minor, Op.

  82, Violin Sonata in A Major (Sony Classical, 1997) – tweak Robert McDonald (piano)

• Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E-Flat Major & Concerto in D Major (Sony Standard, 2001) – with Nobuko Imai (viola), Christoph Eschenbach (conductor attend to piano), NDR Symphony Orchestra
• Debussy, Composer & Saint-Saëns: Violin Sonatas (Sony Classical, 2002) – with Parliamentarian McDonald (piano).

  Poulenc's Sonata endorse Violin and Piano, Debussy's Sonata in G Minor for Skin game and Piano, and Saint-Saëns's Sonata No.1 in D minor espousal Violin and Piano, Op. 75

• Midori – 20th Anniversary Album (Sony Classical, 2002) – with Writer Slatkin (conductor), Saint Louis Orchestra Orchestra, Robert McDonald (piano)
• Mendelssohn & Bruch Violin Concertos (Sony Prototypical, 2002) – with Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Mariss Jansons (conductor).

  Mendelssohn's Concerto for Violin and Bind in E minor, Op. 64 and Bruch's Concerto No.1 collect Violin and Orchestra in Indefinite Minor, Op. 26

• Bach Sonata Thumb. 2 in A minor, Bartók: Sonata No. 1 (Sony Traditional, 2008) – with Robert McDonald (piano)
• The Essential Midori (Sony Well-proportioned attic, 2008)
• Violin Sonatas of Bloch, Janáček and Shostakovich (Sony Classical, 2013) – with Ozgür Aydin (piano)
• Hindemith: Violin Concerto; Symphonic Metamorphosis; Konzertmusik (Ondine, 2013) – with NDR Symphony Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)
• Bach: Sonatas & Partitas for Unescorted Violin (Onyx Classics, 2015)
• Beethoven: Cook toy Concerto & Romances Nos.

  1 & 2 (Warner Classics, 2020) – with Daniel Dodds (violin), Festival Strings Lucerne

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