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Afghan National Institute of Music students and students of the Conservatory Calouste Gulbenkian take part in Midori’s International Orchestra Residencies Program

March 5, 2023 in /by

Midori’s latest International Orchestra Residencies Program (ORP) took place in Braga, Portugal in collaboration with the Conservatory Calouste Gulbenkian in late February and early March 2023. Since 2022, the Conservatory has provided a home for the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM), whose students and faculty were evacuated after the Taliban assumed power in 2021.  The Taliban forbade non-religious music making in the country, took over the ANIM school and destroyed the music students’ instruments. On March 5th, following two intense weeks of working with Midori, students from both the Conservatory and the Afghan Youth Orchestra took part in a concert. The moving documentary “Symphony of Courage” tells the story […]

30th Anniversary Gala for Midori & Friends

February 27, 2023 in /by

On February 15th, Midori & Friends held a Gala celebrating three decades of providing tuition-free music education programs in New York City. Midori & Friends is the first non-profit organization that Midori founded. She was just 21 years old. Over the ensuing years, Midori & Friends has provided high-quality sequential music education in over 80 New York City schools and organizations to 300,000 students from Pre-Kindergarten to age 12 who had little or no previous access to the arts. Read about Midori & Friends Watch a video about Midori & Friends that was screened at the Gala  

Anmerkungen zu Sonaten und Partiten für Violine solo ohne Bass von J. S. Bach

January 28, 2023 in , /by

Im Jahre 1720 ist Johann Sebastian Bach Kapellmeister am Hof des Fürsten Leopold von Anhalt-Cöthen. Als Musiker in der frühen Mitte seiner Karriere und eher als Organist denn als Komponist bekannt, beschäftigte sich Bach während seines sechsjährigen Aufenthalts in Cöthen mit der Komposition einiger seiner wichtigsten Instrumentalwerke (und nicht mit den religiösen Vokalkompositionen, die seine Arbeit an anderen Orten in solcher Fülle verlangte), während er gleichzeitig die üblichen Aufgaben eines Musikdirektors an einem weltlichen Hof erfüllte – spielen, proben, aufführen und dirigieren – und seine Führungsrolle als oberster Musiker der Stadt wahrnahm. Diese Zeit, die er in einer relativ kleinen Stadt verbrachte (die Jahrhunderte später Teil der DDR wurde und […]

Brief notes on Sonatas and Partitas without Bass for Solo Violin by J. S. Bach

January 28, 2023 in , /by

We find Johann Sebastian Bach in the year 1720 as Kapellmeister in the court of Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen. A musician in early mid-career and much better known as an organist than as a composer, Bach busied himself during his six-year sojourn in Cöthen with writing some of his most important instrumental music (rather than the religious vocal compositions his work demanded in such profusion in other postings), while still performing the customary duties of a musical director in a secular court—playing, rehearsing, performing, and conducting—showing leadership as the head musician of the town. This period he spent in a relatively small town (centuries later to become a part of […]

五嶋みどり新譜発売のお知らせ

October 7, 2022 in , /by

五嶋みどり新譜発売のお知らせ 世界に先駆け、日本のみの先行発売！ 【タイトル】 ベートーヴェン：ピアノとヴァイオリンのためのソナタ集（全10曲）（SACDハイブリッド盤） 【演奏者】 五嶋みどり（ヴァイオリン） ジャン＝イヴ・ティボーデ（ピアノ） 【商品番号および発売日】 発売品番：WPCS-13839/41 発売日：2022年11月9日（水） 【アルバムの予約注文はこちら】 https://warnermusicjapan.lnk.to/midoriSonatas 【ワーナーミュージック・ジャパンHP】 https://wmg.jp/midori/

MIDORI’S 40TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON

September 26, 2022 in /by

The 2022-2023 season marks the 40th Anniversary of Midori’s professional debut, which took place on New Year’s Eve in 1982 with the New York Philharmonic and Zubin Mehta. She was 11 years old. This season, Warner Classics will release a new recording of the complete Beethoven sonatas cycle with Midori and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, which the artists will perform in its entirety at Dartmouth College New Hampshire and Suntory Hall, Tokyo. The Suntory Hall Beethoven sonatas cycle is part of a five-day celebration of Midori’s anniversary that also pays homage to Beethoven and to Midori’s mentor, the late Isaac Stern, whose significant birthdays fell during Covid lockdowns. Over the course […]