Midori seiler haydn biography

Midori Seiler, Bavarian- Japanese daughter of two pianists grew up in Salzburg.
Born: 1969 - Salzburg, Austria ; The German-Japanese violin player, Midori Seiler, is the daughter of a Japanese pianist mother and a Bavarian.
Bavarian-Japanese violinist, Midori Seiler has been a long-term concertmaster of Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and Anima Eterna Brugge.

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biography

Midori Seiler, Bavarian- Japanese daughter of two pianists grew up in Salzburg.
Her musical education took her from Salzburg via Basel and London to Berlin. She was tutored by the most varied and distinctive musical personalities: the ‚modern’ instrumentalists Helmut Zehetmair, Sandòr Végh, Adelina Oprean, David Takeno and Eberhard Feltz as well as two specialists for ancient music, Stephan Mai and Thomas Hengelbrock.

As a long time member and one of the concert masters of Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Midori was a leading member during the ensemble’s international breakthrough from 1992 to 2014. Numerous CD recordings from this fruitful period present Midori as a soloist. One outstanding collaboration was Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with dancer and choreographer Juan Cruz de Garaio Esnaola, which was celebrated on stages throughout Europe, the live DVD recording of which was released to critical acclaim.

Between 2001 and 2014, Midori was the concertmaster of Anima Eterna Brugge, which specializes in orchestral repertoire of the classical, romantic and early twen

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Program: Australian Haydn Ensemble: Midori and Mozart

Bavarian-Japanese violinist, Midori Seiler has been a long-term concertmaster of Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and Anima Eterna Brugge.

Seiler makes her Australian debut with the Australian Haydn Ensemble as guest director and soloist in this program Mozart and Haydn symphonies and concertos. In 2015, she was awarded the Saxonian Mozart Prize, which acknowledged her responsible artistic and pedagogical work around the masterpieces of Mozart.

Completed in 1779, Mozart’s cheerful Symphony No. 33 belies the composer’s personal situation at the time, having returned to Salzburg from his unsuccessful trip to Mannheim and Paris to the death of his mother. The second half of the concert begins with Mozart Violin Concerto No. 2. Just 19 years old, Mozart composed five violin concertos in a period of eight months. At the time the composer was concertmaster of the Archbishop's orchestra in Salzburg and was likely to have been the intended soloist.

Joseph Haydn’s Violin Concerto in C major was composed in the 1760s and shows

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The German-Japanese violin player, Midori Seiler, is the daughter of a Japanese pianist mother and a Bavarian pianist father, who grew up in Salzburg, Austria. Her musical training took her from Salzburg to Basel, London and Berlin. Her teachers were Helmut Zehetmair, Sandor Végh, Adelina Oprean, David Takeno, Eberhard Feltz and Stephan Mai

Since 2000, Midori Seiler is concertmistress of the orchestras Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and Anima Eterna and was invited as guest concertmaster at various groups, such as Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. As soloist in Europe, South America, Asia and the USA, she performed violin concerti by J.S. Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann, Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn, Mozart and L.v. Beethoven.

Her recordings, among them several winning awards, include the violin concerti by Mozart, her own reconstruct ion (after BWV 1052) of a lost violin concerto by J.S. Bach and Sheherezade by Rimskij-Korsakoff. With pianist and specialist for historical keyboard instruments Jos van Immerseel she produced th