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01/09/2019 - National Concert Hall / Taipei, Taiwan
01/10/2019 - National Taichung Theater / Taichung City, Taiwan
01/31/2019 - Auditorium de Palma de Mallorca / Palma de Mallorca, Spain
02/22/2019 - Komische Oper Berlin / Berlin, Germany
02/28/2019 - De Lawei / Drachten, Netherlands
03/01/2019 - Theater DNK / Assen, Netherlands
03/02/2019 - De Oosterpoort en Stadsschouwburg Groningen / Groningen, Netherlands
03/10/2019 - Audimax der Universitat Regensburg / Regensburg, Germany
03/11/2019 - Heinrich-Lades-Halle / Erlangen, Germany
03/13/2019 - Mupa Budapest / Budapest, Hungary
03/15/2019 - Stadttheater Olten / Olten, Switzerland
03/19/2019 - Theater Dortmund / Dortmund, Germany
03/20/2019 - Theater Dortmund / Dortmund, Germany
03/23/2019 - Teatro Manzoni / Pistoia, Italy
04/06/2019 - Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts / Scottsdale, AZ
04/07/2019 - San Francisco Symphony / San Francisco, CA
04/12/2019 - Conrad Prebys Music Center / La Jolla, CA
04/14/2019 - Chicago Symphony Center / Chicago, IL
04/15/2019 - McCarter Theatre Center / Princeton, NJ
04/25/2019 - Act City Concert Hall / Hamamatsu, Japan
04/26/2019 - Harmony Hall / Fukui, Japan
04/27/2019 - Aichi Arts Center / Nagoya, Japan
04/28/2019 - Festival Hall / Osaka, Japan
04/29/2019 - Bunka Gakuen HBG Hall / Hiroshima, Japan
04/30/2019 - Suntory Hall / Tokyo, Japan
1 Bach: Sonata No. 2 in A minor for Unaccompanied Violin, BWV 1003/Grave  
2 Bach: Sonata No. 2 in A minor for Unaccompanied Violin, BWV 1003/Fuga  
3 Bach: Sonata No. 2 in A minor for Unaccompanied Violin, BWV 1003/Andante  
4 Bach: Sonata No. 2 in A minor for Unaccompanied Violin, BWV 1003/Allegro  
5 Bartok: Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano, Sz. 75, BB 84 (Op. 21)/I. Allegro appassionato  
6 Bartok: Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano, Sz. 75, BB 84 (Op. 21)/II Adagio  
7 Bartok: Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano, Sz. 75, BB 84 (Op. 21)/III Allegro  
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In a refreshing juxtaposition of repertoire, Midori's first new recording in five years, features J.S. Bach's Unaccompanied Sonata No.2 in A Minor with Bartok's Sonata No.1 in C-sharp Minor. The SONY BMG Masterworks recording pairs Pianist Robert McDonald with Midori in the Bartok. "Both in my own personal listening and in concert programs, I really enjoy combining works from diverse historical periods - I believe they shed light on one another in the most wonderful way," says Midori, "so I thought it would be terrific to put these two great sonatas next to one another on a recording."

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  • Midori and Thibaudet take a visceral approach to the New Year and the Beethoven year at Kravis event / Palm Beach Daily News
    Posted At: January 7, 2020 12:00 AM

    Violinist Midori and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet play early sonatas and Kreutzer masterwork during Kravis event. The New Year started with a special treat at the Kravis Center, compliments of the Regional Arts Concert Series. Bringing together two major artists performing the incomparable music of Ludwig van Beethoven was indeed a cause for celebration on a cold Sunday afternoon. The program featured vio...
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  • Midori returns to TSO for Brahms concerto / Arizona Daily Star - tucson.com
    Posted At: October 29, 2018 12:00 AM

    Midori - made the front page of the New York Times when she was just 15 years old. She was performing at the famed Tanglewood Music Festival under the baton of Leonard Bernstein. At the time, she was already four years into her career, which she launched with a surprise guest appearance with the New York Philharmonic as the guest soloist at the 1982 New Year's Eve Gala. In the three decades since, Mi...
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  • Midori has one of the best Leonard Bernstein stories ever / Northeast Public Radio
    Posted At: August 18, 2018 12:00 AM

    Midori, perhaps, perhaps has one of the best Leonard Bernstein stories of all time. In happened in 1986 at Tanglewood when she was performing Bernstein's "Serenade," conducted by Bernstein. During the performance, she broke the E string on her violin, then again on the concertmaster's Stradivarius after she borrowed it. She finished the performance with the associate concertmaster's instrumen...
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  • Midori to join Curtis Institute of Music violin faculty in 2018 / theStrad
    Posted At: June 27, 2017 12:00 AM

    The violinist, who has taught at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music for 14 years, will join the Curtis Institute full-time from the 2018-2019 academic year. Midori is to join the Curtis Institute of Music violin faculty from the beginning of the 2018-2019 academic year. The violinist will visit the Philadelphia school a number of times during the 2017-2018 academic year to giv...
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  • Midori says 'music has no boundaries in promoting peace' / UN Web TV
    Posted At: June 22, 2017 12:00 AM

    Midori is one of the most admired violinists of her generation. In addition to performing at the highest levels internationally, giving master classes and participating in prominent artistic residencies, she has made a sustained commitment to the violin repertoire of the future, commissioning new concerto and recital works over a period of many years. Beyond her performing and recording career, M...
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  • Midori plays Singapore Violin Festival / The Straits Times review
    Posted At: June 1, 2017 12:00 AM

    This year's Singapore Violin Festival could not have had a more star-studded presence than the eminent Japanese violinist Midori Goto, who performs under the name Midori. She is a member of the festival's faculty of teachers and what better way of showing, telling and inspiring younger violinists than by performing a full-length concert? The six unaccompanied Violin Sonatas and Partitas of Jo...
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  • Midori with CSO sail through the treacherous challenges of Britten's Violin Concerto / Cincinnati.com
    Posted At: May 6, 2017 12:00 AM

    It's astonishing that Benjamin Britten's Violin Concerto has only been programmed by the CSO three previous times, the first in 2006. The British composer finished it in 1939, just as World War II was breaking out. Written for a violinist who was a refugee of the Spanish Civil War, the piece opens with a pervading Spanish rhythm in the percussion. Midori sailed through its treacherous technical challenge...
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  • USC professor - Midori joins students who perform for appreciative audiences in Mexico
    Posted At: February 12, 2017 12:00 AM

    For Midori Goto, playing violin is about more than hitting the right notes on a treble-pitched instrument with four strings. The renowned violinist, who debuted as a child prodigy with the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta, knows that music tugs at heartstrings as well. So why should it be reserved for concert halls? Goto, known professionally the world over by her first name, Midori, takes her vio...
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  • Midori joins PSO for Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Posted At: February 2, 2017 12:00 AM

    There aren't too many people in popular culture who can get away with using only one name. In classical music, however, we're used to that: Mozart, Beethoven and plenty of other 18th- and 19th-century composers need no introduction. It's perhaps a little more impressive that the 45-year-old violinist Midori has done so for a few decades. The Japanese-born American violinist will join the Pittsburgh Symph...
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  • Midori's has busy residency with the Marin Symphony / San Francisco Chronicle
    Posted At: January 19, 2017 12:00 AM

    Alasdair Neale first performed with Midori a decade ago with the Sun Valley Summer Symphony in Idaho, where the longtime Marin Symphony maestro also serves as music director. Neale got to do it again a few years back when Midori returned to the free Sun Valley festival that Neale has productively nurtured for 22 years. "She's obviously a legendary artist, and with good reason. She'...
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  • Midori's Passion Beyond the Concert Hall / WRTI Radio
    Posted At: December 22, 2016 12:00 AM

    On New Year's Day at 1 pm on WRTI, listen to a broadcast of Midori performing Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D Major with The Philadelphia Orchestra. Violinist Midori has been performing with major orchestras since her 1983 New Year's Eve debut at age 11 with The New York Philharmonic. While still in her teens, she developed another passion. Midori talks about how her outreach efforts to provide...
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  • Midori participates in Orchestra Residency with Kalamazoo Symphony TODAY-Feb. 2
    Posted At: January 29, 2014 12:00 AM

    One of two communities picked every year, The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra was chosen for Midori's Orchestra Residencies Program. Starting TODAY Jan. 29 and running through Feb. 2, the world renowned Violinist will workshop with students & professional musicians, and appear at WMU and at Kalamazoo and Portage Michigan public schools. She will also be guest artist at the KSO concert on Feb. 1...
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  • Midori brings two contrasting concerts to this year's Edinburgh International Festival
    Posted At: August 22, 2013 12:00 AM

    Internationally renowned violinist Midori brings two contrasting concerts to this year's Edinburgh International Festival, TONIGHT!!, Thusday August 22, and on Saturday August 24th. Offering a fresh perspective on one of the greatest collections of music in the violin repertoire, her colossal ambition, intellectual intensity and huge emotional scope, plays the elegant Bach Sonata in G minor against t...
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  • A concerto for violin and orchestra written for Midori called: DoReMi
    Posted At: January 18, 2013 12:00 AM

    Violin virtuoso Midori will perform with the LA Phil and guest conductor Pablo Heras-Casado, Peter Eötvös concerto for violin and orchestra written for Midori entitled "DoReMi." Don't miss the world premiere: TONIGHT!! JANUARY 18, 2013@The Walt Disney Concert Hall.  "DoReMi," the musical beginner's melodic building-blocks is Eotvos's pun on his violinist's name: Mi...
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  • Midori: Bach & Bartok. A refreshing juxtaposition of repertoire
    Posted At: April 21, 2008 12:00 AM

    In a refreshing juxtaposition of repertoire, Midori's first new recording in five years, features J.S. Bach's Unaccompanied Sonata No.2 in A Minor with Bartok's Sonata No.1 in C-sharp Minor. The SONY BMG Masterworks recording becomes available on January 1, 2008.  Pianist Robert McDonald joins Midori in the Bartak. "Both in my own personal listening and in concert programs, I really enjo...
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