Midori Seiler
Midori Seiler has established a multifaceted career on the concert stage, appearing as soloist, chamber player, and concertmistress with several major orchestras. She is one of the busier violinists in Europe, not simply because her highly successful concert activity has also led her into the recording studio, but owing to her teaching duties at the Liszt School of Music in Weimar and her schedule of master classes at various European locations. Not to be confused with Japanese-American violinist Midori Goto, who generally uses just her first name, Seiler typically performs on period instruments and has achieved acclaim for her incisive interpretations of Baroque repertory, particularly works by J.S. Bach and Vivaldi. But she has also received high praise for her Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and for her solo work in the Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade. Seiler has often appeared in concert with pianist Jos van Immerseel and has concertized throughout Europe, the Americas, and Asia. She has also made numerous recordings, mostly for Harmonia Mundi and Zig Zag.
Midori Seiler was born to a Japanese mother and Bavarian father in Osaka, Japan in 1969. Her parents, talented pianists both, raised her in Salzburg. Seiler's first advanced studies were in Salzburg with Helmut Zehetmair and Sandor Vegh. She had later studies with Adelina Oprean at the Basel Conservatory of Music, and with Thomas Hengelbrock at the Schola Cantorum, also in Basel.
While studying in Basel Seiler was concertmistress in the Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra. She had further studies with David Takeno (London) and Eberhard Feltz (Berlin). From 1991, Seiler has served as a member of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, becoming the ensemble's concertmistress in 2000, a post she still holds. She serves in the same capacity with Anima Eterna, the period-instrument ensemble led by pianist/conductor Jos van Immerseel.
Seiler and van Immerseel collaborated on a disc of Mozart, Les grandes sonates viennoises, on Zig Zag, which received the prestigious Diapason d'Or Award in 2002. In 2005 Seiler appeared in Carnegie Hall in an acclaimed performance of the J.S. Bach Concerto for two violins, with violinist Georg Kallweit, and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, part of the ensemble's first tour of the U.S.
From 2010, Seiler has served as professor of Baroque violin and viola at the Liszt School of Music in Weimar. Among her most important recordings is the highly acclaimed 2011 Berlin Classics CD of the Bach Partitas for violin solo, No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3.
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Discography
10 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Bach's Virtuosos
Midori Seiler, Köthener BachCollektiv, Mayumi Hirasaki, Georg Kallweit
Classical - Released by Berlin Classics on 14 Apr 2023
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Joseph Haydn : Violin Concertos
Violin Concertos - Released by Berlin Classics on 21 Feb 2014
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Mozart : Symphonies, Concertos & Sonatas
Jos Van Immerseel, Anima Eterna, Midori Seiler
Classical - Released by Zig-Zag Territoires on 1 Sep 2007
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Ludwig van Beethoven : Complete Sonatas for Violin & Piano (Intégrale des sonates pour violon & piano)
Midori Seiler, Jos Van Immerseel
Classical - Released by Zig-Zag Territoires on 30 May 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bach: Partitas for Violin
Violin Solos - Released by Berlin Classics on 28 Jan 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni - Rebel: Les Eléments (Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Midori Seiler)
Midori Seiler, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 9 Feb 2010
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Vivaldi : La Venezia di Anna Maria
Violin Concertos - Released by Berlin Classics on 27 Apr 2018
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Bach: The Violin Sonatas
Violin Solos - Released by Berlin Classics on 18 Mar 2016
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mozart: Symphonie No. 29, K. 201 & Concertos pour violon Nos. 2 et 3
Midori Seiler, Jos Van Immerseel, Anima Eterna
Classical - Released by Zig-Zag Territoires on 1 Oct 2005
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Schubert: Sonatas for Pianoforte and Violin
Jos Van Immerseel, Midori Seiler
Classical - Released by Zig-Zag Territoires on 1 May 2006
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo