Midori Seiler (February 18, 1969 Osaka [1] ) is a German-Japanese violinist specializing in baroque and classical music.
Midori Seiler (February 18, 1969 Osaka [1] ) is a German-Japanese violinist specializing in baroque and classical music.
Midori Seiler is the daughter of a Japanese pianist and a Bavarian pianist. She grew up in Salzburg. There she also began her music studies with Helmut Zehetmair and Sándor Végh. Further stages of her training took her to Switzerland to the Basler Adelina Oprean and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Thomas Hengelbrock, to London with David Takeno and finally to Berlin, where she completed her studies with a concert exam under Eberhard Feltz.
During her time in Basel, she was already concertmaster of the Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra. Since 1991 she has been a member of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (Akamus), a prestigious European baroque orchestra. Her recording of the seven great Viennese violin sonatas by Mozart for the French label Zig Zag was awarded the Diapason d'or of 2002 and the Choc - Le Monde de la musique.
With the Akamus as well as with Anima Eterna, the orchestra of the Belgian fortepiano specialist Jos van Immerseel, Seiler has performed violin concertos of the baroque and classical repertoire at the Wigmore Hall London, the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) Amsterdam, the Musikvereinssaal in Vienna and in many other European cities.
She led master classes in Bruges and Antwerp and was professor of Baroque violin and viola at the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar from 2010 to 2013 [2] and has taught at the Mozarteum University Salzburg since 2014, returning to Weimar in 2017. [3] Since April 2020, Midori Seiler has been teaching at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. [4]
From 2025 she is to take over the artistic direction of the early music festival zamus in Cologne [5]
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