{"id":51603,"date":"2025-07-31T14:23:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/events\/cremona-musica-awards-midori-award-ceremony\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T13:03:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:03:37","slug":"cremona-musica-awards-midori-award-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"ajde_events","link":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/events\/cremona-musica-awards-midori-award-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Cremona Musica Awards – Award Ceremony for Violinist Midori"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Midori is a visionary artist, activist, and educator who explores and builds connections between music and the human experience. In the four decades since her debut with the New York Philharmonic at age 11, the “simply magical” (Houston Chronicle<\/em>) violinist has performed with many of the world’s most prestigious orchestras and collaborated with world-renowned musicians including Leonard Bernstein, Yo-Yo Ma, and many others. Midori is the Artistic Director of the Piano and Strings Program at the Ravinia Steans Music Institute; summer 2024 will be her first year in this role. <\/p>\n\n

This season, she will debut Spirituals<\/em>, a new work written for her by Che Buford, in a recital with pianist \u00d6zg\u00fcr Aydin, at the Edinburgh Festival, New York’s 92nd Street Y, Boston’s Celebrity Series, San Francisco Performances, and the Colburn Celebrity Series. Other highlights of Midori’s 2024-25 season include performances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Louisville Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, and Oklahoma City Philharmonic. <\/p>\n\n

Outside the United States, he performs with the Vienna Philharmonic under Andris Nelsons in Vienna and on tour in Japan and Korea (Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto); he will perform twice in spring 2025 at the Berlin Philharmonic, with the Deutsche National Youth Orchestra in May, performing Glanert’s Second Violin Concerto, and with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO) in June, performing Dvo\u0159\u00e1k’s Violin Concerto. He will also join the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under Jonathan Nott, performing the Sibelius Violin Concerto on a tour of Spain, and will give concerts in Geneva, Cologne, and Nuremberg, as well as in Mumbai, Istanbul, \u0130zmir, and Colombo. <\/p>\n\n

Deeply committed to promoting humanitarian and educational goals, Midori has founded several nonprofit organizations: Midori & Friends, based in New York, and MUSIC SHARING, based in Japan, both of which have been active for over thirty years. For the Orchestra Residencies Program (ORP), which supports youth orchestras, Midori commissioned a new work by composer Derek Bermel, Spring Cadenzas, which premiered virtually during the COVID-19 lockdown and continues to be performed; this season, she is working on creating a video recording of the work, to accompany a tutorial. The ORP also recently collaborated with the Afghan Youth Orchestra, which relocated to Portugal to continue its operations. Midori’s Partners in Performance (PiP) program helps bring chamber music to smaller communities across the United States. In recognition of her work as an artist and humanitarian, she is a United Nations Messenger of Peace and was named a 2021 Kennedy Center Honoree. <\/p>\n\n

Born in Osaka in 1971, she began studying violin with her mother, Setsu Goto, at an early age. In 1982, conductor Zubin Mehta invited the then eleven-year-old Midori to perform with the New York Philharmonic in the orchestra’s annual New Year’s Eve concert, laying the foundation for her subsequent career. Midori holds the Dorothy Richard Starling Chair in Violin Studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. She has received honorary degrees from Smith College, Yale University, the Longy School of Music, and Shenandoah University, and in 2023 she received the Brandeis Creative Arts Award from Brandeis University. <\/p>\n\n

He plays the 1734 ‘ex-Huberman’ Guarneri del Ges\u00f9 and uses four bows: two by Dominique Peccatte, one by Fran\u00e7ois Peccatte and one by Paul Siefried.<\/p>\n\n

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