Midori’s first season as Artistic Director of the Ravinia Steans Music Institute’s Program for Piano & Strings

In her first season as Artistic Director of the Ravinia Steans Music Institute‘s Program for Piano & Strings, Midori oversaw the distinguished program that focuses on interpretation and small group collaboration through practice and performance of classical sonata and chamber repertoire. The Steans Music Institute is located in Highland Park, Illinois.

Over two dozen violinists, violists, cellists and pianists gathered for five weeks of intensive rehearsals and coaching under the guidance of Midori and a rotating roster of some of the world’s finest artists and pedagogues.

On July 6, Midori joined violinist Mihaela Martin, violist Kim Kashkashian, cellists Frans Helmerson and Clive Greensmith and pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin in a program combining Beethoven’s String Trio No 4 in D Major and Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E-flat Major with Timo Andres’s Piano Trio (commissioned by the Ravinia Steans Music Institute in 2018) and Carlos Simon’s where two or three are gathered.