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Midori, Violin
U.S. Performances - Fall 2025
Thursday, October 23 - Carnegie Hall
Celebrating Arvo Pärt’s 90th Birthday / Estonian Festival Orchestra North American Debut
November 6-8 (Thursday - Saturday)
Boston Symphony | Dvorak's Violin Concerto
November 10-16
Recital Tour | World Premiere by Che Buford
"Midori’s is still the singular sound familiar from her long affiliation with the virtuosic standards: big, focused, strongly projected, uncannily smooth and consistent bowing across a broadband spectrum of volume and color." — Washington Post
Midori is one of the most outstanding violinists of our time: a visionary artist, activist and educator who performs at the world's great concert halls and travels the globe to to bring music to less celebrated spaces on several continents, including North America and Asia.
This fall, audiences can experience her virtuosity as a soloist when she joins the Estonian Festival Orchestra at Carnegie Hall for their North American debut in a celebration of Arvo Pärt (Oct 23) and the Boston Symphony for Dvorak's Violin Concerto (Nov 6-8). On November 10, she embarks on a recital tour that features a world premiere commissioned from the young New York-based composer Che Buford alongside music by Beethoven, Poulenc, Schubert and both Robert and Clara Schumann. Details follow below.
Thursday, October 23 at 8:00 pm
Carnegie Hall, New York
Arvo Pärt at 90 Celebration
Estonian Festival Orchestra -- North American Debut
Paavo Järvi, Conductor
Midori, Violin
Hans Christian Aavik, Violin | Nico Muhly, Piano
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir | Tõnu Kaljuste, Director
Carnegie Hall Event Page
The Estonian Festival Orchestra, with conductor Paavo Järvi, makes its North American debut at Carnegie Hall as part of a global celebration of Arvo Pärt’s 90th birthday. Midori joins the Orchestra for Pärt's Tabula Rasa (1977), one of the composer's seminal works in his signature “tintinnabuli” style, written for two solo violins, prepared piano, and string orchestra. The piece unfolds in two contrasting movements—Ludus (game) and Silentium (silence)—and is known for its meditative stillness, transparent textures, and spiritual intensity. With soloists Hans Christian Aavik, violin, and Nico Muhly, piano.
"Midori’s muscular playing and virtuosic agility are a sight to behold. She gets into her performance with her entire physique, delving into her instrument as if she has to extract the sound from her 1734 Guarneri del Gesù by force."
— San Francisco Classical Voice
Thursday, November 6 at 7:30 pm
Friday, November 7 at 1:30 pm
Saturday, November 8 at 8 pm
Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
Boston Symphony
Nodoka Okisawa, conductor
Midori, Violin
DVOŘÁK Violin Concerto
Boston Symphony Orchestra Event Page
Midori, a frequent collaborator of longtime BSO Music Director Seiji Ozawa, returns to the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) for three performances of Dvořák’s Violin Concerto. The conductor is Nodoka Okisawa, who was mentored by Ozawa and is making her BSO debut with music by Dvořák, whose work Ozawa especially loved. Also on the program is Requiem for strings (1957), the work that helped to make the great Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu one of the first composers to gain a reputation in the West.
November 10-16 / US RECITAL TOUR
Midori, Violin
Ieva Jokubaviciute, Piano
CHE BUFORD: Resonances of Spirit (Premiere)
BEETHOVEN: Sonata in F Major for Violin & Piano, Op. 24, “Spring”
POULENC: Sonata for Violin and Piano
CLARA WIECK SCHUMANN: Romances (3) for violin & piano, Op. 22
ROBERT SCHUMANN: Three Romances, Op. 94
SCHUBERT: Rondo in B minor, D. 895
Midori has been commissioning and performing new music and championing living composers throughout her career. Her U.S. recital tour this season, with pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute, features the world premiere of Resonances of Spirit, by the New York-based composer Che Buford. Midori commissioned Buford to create a piece inspired by Negro spirituals that would highlight the violin’s exceptional capacity to convey pain and sorrow. The work incorporates water, wind, deep sine tones, electronic drones, and whispers of Yoruba prayer, alongside Buford’s own humming and singing, with the violin blending seamlessly into these atmospheric textures. In their note on the piece, Buford writes:
“Rather than referencing [spirituals] in a literal or transparent way, I wanted to capture their emotional essence and transform it through my own musical language that includes incorporating electronic elements.”
RECITAL TOUR DATES
Monday, November 10 at 7:30 pm
Williams College / Williamstown, MA | Tickets & Info
Friday, November 14 at 8 pm
Staller Center at University of Stony Brook / Stony Brook (Long Island), NY | Tickets & Info
Saturday, November 15 at 7:30 pm
Washington Performing Arts / Washington, DC | Tickets & Info
Sunday, November 16 at 3 pm
Modlin Center at University of Richmond / Richmond, VA | Tickets & Info
"More than 30 years after bursting on the scene as a pint-size violin prodigy, Midori continues to set an example for how to be an engaged musician in the modern world."
— San Francisco Chronicle