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Sarah Chang
Sarah Chang
violinist
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Shlomo Mintz
Shlomo Mintz
Israeli violin virtuoso, violist and conductor
2
Isaac Stern
Isaac Stern
American musician
3
Jascha Heifetz
Jascha Heifetz
Lithuanian violinist
4
Alisa Weilerstein
Alisa Weilerstein
American cellist
5
Hilary Hahn
Hilary Hahn
musician
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Josef Suk
Josef Suk
Czech violinist, violist, chamber musician and conductor (1929-2011)
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Eugène Ysaÿe
Eugène Ysaÿe
Belgian violinist, composer and conductor
8
Rudolf Firkušný
Rudolf Firkušný
Czech pianist
9
Vilde Frang
Vilde Frang
classical violinist
10
Arabella Steinbacher
Arabella Steinbacher
German violinist
11
Gil Shaham
Gil Shaham
Israeli musician
12
Trevor Pinnock
Trevor Pinnock
English harpsichordist and conductor
13
Viviane Hagner
Viviane Hagner
German musician
14
Edith Peinemann
Edith Peinemann
German classical violinist
15
Dinu Lipatti
Dinu Lipatti
Pianist, Composer
16
Joanna MacGregor
Joanna MacGregor
British musician
17
Kim Kashkashian
Kim Kashkashian
American violist
18
Mela Tenenbaum
Mela Tenenbaum
violinist and violist
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Lisa Batiashvili
Lisa Batiashvili
Georgian musician
20
Shunsuke Sato
Shunsuke Sato
Japanese musician
21
Itzhak Perlman
Itzhak Perlman
Israeli-American violinist and conductor
22
Yuja Wang
Yuja Wang
Chinese pianist
23
Lillian Fuchs
Lillian Fuchs
American musician
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Anne Akiko Meyers
Anne Akiko Meyers
American concert violinist
25
Murray Perahia
Murray Perahia
American pianist and conductor
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Lera Auerbach
Lera Auerbach
Soviet-Russian-born American classical composer and pianist
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Ryu Goto
Ryu Goto
violinist
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Ray Chen
Ray Chen
Taiwanese-Australian violinist
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George Enescu
George Enescu
Romanian composer
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Esa-Pekka Salonen
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Finnish conductor and composer
31
Robert Casadesus
Robert Casadesus
French pianist and composer
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Vladimir Ashkenazy
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Icelandic pianist and conductor from Russia
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Catherine Manoukian
Catherine Manoukian
Canadian classical violinist
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Walter Susskind
Walter Susskind
Czech conductor, composer and pianist
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Julius Baker
Julius Baker
American musician
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Ruth Gipps
Ruth Gipps
English composer, oboist, pianist and impresario
Midori Gotō
Japanese American Violinist

Midori Gotō

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Japanese American Violinist
Awards Received
AAAS Fellow
Music
Member of, past and present
American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Midori Goto (五嶋 みどり, Gotō Midori, born October 25, 1971), who performs under the mononym Midori, is a Japanese-born American violinist. She made her debut with the New York Philharmonic at age 11 as a surprise guest soloist at the New Year's Eve Gala in 1982. In 1986 her performance at the Tanglewood Music Festival with Leonard Bernstein conducting his own composition made the front-page headlines in The New York Times. Midori became a celebrated child prodigy, and one of the world's preeminent violinists as an adult.

Midori has been honored as an educator and for her community engagement endeavors. When she was 21, she established her foundation Midori and Friends to bring music education to young people in underserved communities in New York City and Japan, which has evolved into four distinct organizations with worldwide impact. In 2007, Midori was appointed as a UN Messenger of Peace. In 2018 she joined the violin faculty at the Curtis Institute while remaining on the USC Thornton School Of Music Violin faculty holding the Judge Widney Professor of Music Chair. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012.