Midori Seiler (February 18, 1969

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specializing in baroque and classical music.

Life

Midori Seiler is the daughter of a Japanese pianist and a Bavarian pianist. She grew up in

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. There she also began her music studies with Helmut Zehetmair and

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. Further stages of her training took her to Switzerland to the

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Adelina Oprean and the

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with

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, 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

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(Akamus), a prestigious European baroque orchestra. Her recording of the seven great Viennese violin sonatas by

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for the French label Zig Zag was awarded the

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of 2002 and the Choc - Le Monde de la musique. With the Akamus as well as with Anima Eterna, the orchestra of the Belgian

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specialist

Jos van Immerseel Jos Van Immerseel (born 9 November 1945) is a Belgian harpsichordist, pianist and Conducting, conductor. Van Immerseel studied Pipe organ, organ, piano and harpsichord at the Antwerp Conservatory under Flor Peeters, Eugène Traey and harpsicho ...

, Seiler has performed violin concertos of the baroque and classical repertoire at the

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London, the

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Amsterdam, the Musikvereinssaal in Vienna and in many other European cities. She led master classes in Bruges and Antwerp and was professor of

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and viola at the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar from 2010 to 2013 and has taught at the

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since 2014, returning to Weimar in 2017. Since April 2020, Midori Seiler has been teaching at the

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in Essen. From 2025 she is to take over the artistic direction of the early music festival zamus in CologneKlassik.com Telegramm 28 February 2024: ''Festival für Alte Musik zamus Midori Seiler''
retrieved 1 March 2024.

Awards

* 2002: ''

'' for her "Vienna Violin Sonatas" by Mozart * 2002: ''Choc du Monde de la Musique'' by '' Classica'' * Prize of the Locatelli Competition at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw

Discography (selection)

* "

Georg Philipp Telemann Georg Philipp Telemann (; – 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. He is one of the most prolific composers in history, at least in terms of surviving works. Telemann was considered by his contemporaries to b ...

." Christus-Kirche Berlin-Oberschöneweide. With Harmonia Mundi/Lotus, 2001. * ''Lust & Leben um 1700.'' With her ''Boreas Ensemble. On the Berlin label KammerTon, 1999. * Johann Sebastian Bach: ''4th Brandenburg Concerto.'' On Harmonia Mundi France * Franz Schubert: ''Sonatas for violin and pianoforte.'' With Jos van Immerseel

External links

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Internetpräsenz von Midori Seiler

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Seiler, Midori 1969 births Living people German violinists German women violinists German people of Japanese descent