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Midori Goto
Midori Goto (Osaka, October 25, 1971) is a Japanese violinist.
Midori Gotō received her first violin lessons from her mother, Setsu Gotō, who discovered that she was musically gifted when she was 2 years old, when she heard her humming a theme by Bach that she had rehearsed a few days earlier. Her brother, Ryu Gotō, is also a concert violinist.
Midori gave her first performance when she was seven years old. She played one of the 24 caprices by Paganini. She moved to New York with her mother in 1982 and took lessons with Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School. During her audition, she played the more than thirteen-minute long partita no. 2 by Bach, the Chaconne, in its entirety (in general this piece is considered one of the most difficult violin pieces ever written). That same year she made her debut with the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Zubin Mehta, with whom she would record a number of concerts. In 1986 her legendary performance at Tanglewood took place. Leonard Bernstein, the conductor, knelt before her, and the next day the New York Times had the following headline on the front page: "14-year-old girl conquers Tanglewood with 3 violins." (she broke the E string of the violin twice and had to borrow a different one each time).
Midori Gotō received her first violin lessons from her mother, Setsu Gotō, who discovered that she was musically gifted when she was 2 years old, when she heard her humming a theme by Bach that she had rehearsed a few days earlier. Her brother, Ryu Gotō, is also a concert violinist.
Midori gave her first performance when she was seven years old. She played one of the 24 caprices by Paganini. She moved to New York with her mother in 1982 and took lessons with Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School. During her audition, she played the more than thirteen-minute long partita no. 2 by Bach, the Chaconne, in its entirety (in general this piece is considered one of the most difficult violin pieces ever written). That same year she made her debut with the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Zubin Mehta, with whom she would record a number of concerts. In 1986 her legendary performance at Tanglewood took place. Leonard Bernstein, the conductor, knelt before her, and the next day the New York Times had the following headline on the front page: "14-year-old girl conquers Tanglewood with 3 violins." (she broke the E string of the violin twice and had to borrow a different one each time).
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