D’OYLY CARTE FOUNDATION AND AIAC JOIN VIOLIN VIRTUOSO MIDORI IN CELEBRATING MUSIC SHARING’S 30TH ANNIVERSARY IN TOKYO
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Tokyo, Japan - June 14, 2024 – Members of the Board of Trustees and Board of Advisors of the D’Oyly Carte Foundation, and its sponsor, the AIAC Foundation, Inc., joined with Midori, the world’s most acclaimed violinist, at a Dinner Gala on June 14, 2024 at the Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa in Tokyo, commemorating the 30th Anniversary of Music Sharing, the Japanese affiliate of the Midori Foundation. D’Oyly Carte’s support for the Midori Foundation, reflects its mission to widely promote music education and appreciation. D’Oyly Carte Foundation attendees at the Gala included Trustees L. M. Levie and Siobhan Sweeney-Cordova, AIAC Managing Director Peter Anthony Graham, Senior Advisor Kenji Nishiwada, and family members.
The Music Sharing Gala featured a string quartet led by Midori, and was organized by her mother and musical mentor, Setsu Goto. A visionary artist, activist, and educator, Midori has enjoyed a career which has been dedicated to exploring and building connections between music and the human experience. As a leading concert violinist for over 35 years, Midori regularly captivates audiences around the world, combining graceful precision with intimate expression. Starting at the age of 11, she has performed as a virtuoso soloist with prestigious orchestras such as the New York, London, Chicago, and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras, the Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics, and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Midori has also collaborated with the world’s leading conductors and instrumentalists, including Claudio Abbado, Leonard Bernstein, Emanuel Ax, Zubin Mehta, Christoph Eschenbach, Mariss Jansons, Paavo Järvi, Omer Meir Wellber, Yo-Yo Ma, and Susanna Mälkki. She is the winner of the Kennedy Center Medal of Honor and the Avery Fisher Prize, and she is United Nations Messenger of Peace.
The evening’s program included performances of Haydn's String Quartet No. 78 in major "Sunrise" Op. 76-4 and Brahms' String Quartet No. 1 in C minor Op. 51-1, among other masterpieces. In addition to celebrating the 30th anniversary of Music Sharing's founding, the Gala marked the launch of the "Play & Joy!" program. This initiative aims to integrate music into everyday life, providing comfort and solace through casual experiences. Activities are currently being conducted in Wakayama, Kagawa, and other regions, focusing on engaging local artists and addressing community needs. The evening began with a pre-event short movie, followed by dinner and conversation, and included a special photo opportunity with Midori.
L.M. Levie, Chairman of the D’Oyly Carte Foundation and Executive Committee Member of the Baryshnikov Arts Center of New York, commented “We are deeply honored to join our dear friends, Setsu and Midori, in celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Music Sharing and the launch of its ‘Play & Joy’ Program. The Midori Foundation and the D’Oyly Carte Foundation together demonstrate that in times of turmoil, music unites us all.”
About Midori
Midori is a visionary artist, activist and educator who explores and builds connections between music and the human experience. In the four decades since her debut with the New York Philharmonic at age 11, the “simply magical” (Houston Chronicle) violinist has performed with many of the world’s most prestigious orchestras and has collaborated with world-renowned musicians including Leonard Bernstein, Yo-Yo Ma, and many others. Midori is the newly appointed Artistic Director of Ravinia Steans Music Institute’s Piano & Strings program, and oversees the program beginning in summer 2024.
Midori celebrated her 40th anniversary last season with Warner Classics’ release of the complete Beethoven sonatas for piano and violin with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet. She began the current season with a summer appearance at the Santander International Festival, followed by fall tours of Europe and North America with Festival Strings Lucerne performing Schumann’s Violin Concerto in D minor and Beethoven’s Romance No. 2, the latter of which she recorded with the Swiss chamber orchestra for an album of Beethoven released on Warner Classics in 2020. Other 2023-2024 season highlights include performing Bernstein’s Serenade with the National Repertory Orchestra under Michael Stern, WDR Symphony in Germany under Constantinos Carydis, and Sofia Philharmonic in Bulgaria. She plays Dvořák’s Violin Concerto in A minor with the Iris Collective and Orchestra Lumos, also under Stern’s baton, and with the Prague Philharmonia under Eugene Tzigane; she also performs a recital at the Long Center in Austin, Texas. In 2024 she gives two performances of the 2019 Violin Concerto An die Unsterbliche Geliebte (“To the Immortal Beloved”), written for her by Detlev Glanert: in January with the NDR Radiophilharmonie under Andrew Manze, and in February with the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, a co-commissioner of the work.
Deeply committed to furthering humanitarian and educational goals, Midori has founded several non-profit organizations; the New York City-based Midori & Friends and Japan-based MUSIC SHARING both celebrated 30th anniversaries in 2022-2023. For the Orchestra Residencies Program (ORP), which supports youth orchestras, Midori commissioned a new work from composer Derek Bermel to be performed virtually during the COVID lockdown, and ORP recently worked with the Afghan Youth Orchestra (in exile in Portugal). Midori’s Partners in Performance (PiP) helps to bring chamber music to smaller communities in the U.S. In recognition of her work as an artist and humanitarian, she serves as a United Nations Messenger of Peace, and was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2021.
Born in Osaka in 1971, she began her violin studies with her mother, Setsu Goto, at an early age. In 1982, conductor Zubin Mehta invited the then 11-year-old Midori to perform with the New York Philharmonic in the orchestra’s annual New Year’s Eve concert, where the foundation was laid for her subsequent career. Midori is the Dorothy Richard Starling Chair in Violin Studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. She is the recipient of honorary doctorates from Smith College, Yale University, Longy School of Music and Shenandoah University. She plays the 1734 Guarnerius del Gesù ‘ex-Huberman’ and uses four bows – two by Dominique Peccatte, one by François Peccatte and one by Paul Siefried.
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https://www.midoriandfriends.org/support/
http://www.musicsharing.jp/en/profile/index.html
https://thepeacestudio.org/midori/
About The D’Oyly Carte Foundation
The D'Oyly Carte Foundation is the American affiliate of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Trust Limited, which supports the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. Since 1875, the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company has professionally produced the 14 Savoy operas of Sir W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan in the UK, Europe, US, Canada, and Australia, spreading mirth and merriment to millions. In 2025, the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company will celebrate its 150th Anniversary, with the performance throughout the UK of Trial by Jury by Gilbert & Sullivan.
The D’Oyly Carte Foundation’s mission is to support and promote the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company’s UK and international touring, to support regional performance companies, schools, colleges, and universities dedicated to the staging of Gilbert & Sullivan operas, and to generally encourage the popular appreciation of the works of Gilbert & Sullivan.
In 2021 and 2022, the D’Oyly Carte Opera Trust, in collaboration with the Scottish Opera and the State Opera South Australia, produced The Gondoliers and also Utopia, Limited in Glasgow, Inverness, Edinburgh, and London. These performances were greeted by rave reviews. Their lavish performance of the Gondoliers was broadcast throughout the UK on BBC-4 on Easter Sunday, April 17, 2022, and is available on BBC iPlayer and BBC America On Demand. The video trailer is found at
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About AIAC
American Industrial Acquisition Corporation (AIAC) is a diversified industrial group with manufacturing and distribution sites in 24 countries in North America, Europe, and Asia. AIAC has acquired and grown non-core subsidiaries and divisions of Boeing, Siemens, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Johnson Controls, Merck, Pfizer, Astellas, Visteon, Carlyle, Ahlstrom, Tolko, Groupe Suez, Groupe Rexel, and many other leading multinational corporations.
AIAC Corporation manufacturing companies serve companies and governmental entities worldwide in all major sectors, including aviation, space, defense, automotive, truck, rail, marine, petrochemical, solar, nuclear, food, confectionary, beverage, civil engineering and infrastructure, commercial construction, mining, dredging, disaster relief, education, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals. AIAC companies manufacture materials, components, assemblies, packaging, equipment, and finished products. In addition, AIAC companies are exclusive, authorized distributors of leading branded industrial and consumer products throughout Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.
Of note, AIAC purchased Boeing Canada in 2005, and has produced over 10,000 unique components for every Boeing jet plane ever since, reliably serving Boeing from manufacturing facilities in North America. A leader in ultra high precision jet engine component manufacturing, AIAC companies also produce 2,200 fan blades and blisks for each jet engine produced by GE, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls Royce, and Honeywell. AIAC companies produce the critical automotive wire and cable for Tesla, GM, Ford, Chrysler-Fiat, Toyota, and Nissan.
In connection with its kraft paper manufacturing interests, AIAC controls and sustainably manages 22 million acres of Manitoba, Canada forestland, an area equivalent in size to the nation of Hungary.
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About AIAC Philanthropy
AIAC and the AIAC Foundation support a wide range of nonprofit, nonsectarian, bipartisan organizations which promote international conflict resolution, disaster relief, economic development, environmental sustainability, and exploration. The exploration-focused nonprofit organizations which they actively support include the Explorers Club, the National Geographic Society, the Royal Geographical Society, the American Museum of Natural History and the Hayden Planetarium, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the National Air and Space Museum, the National Space Society, and the United States Space Foundation.
AIAC’s other beneficiaries include the Appeal of the Nobel Peace Laureates Foundation Inc., the Asia Society, the Atlantic Council, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - Gates Philanthropy Partners, the Bretton Woods Committee, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Carter Center, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New York, the Foreign Policy Association, the Institut Française des Relations Internationales, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Crisis Group, the International Rescue Committee, the Japan Society, the JFK School of Government of Harvard University, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Richardson Center for Global Engagement, the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), the Sierra Club, and the Trilateral Commission.
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