Midori Seiler & Köthener BachCollektiv
Biography Midori Seiler & Köthener BachCollektiv
Midori Seiler
is one of the few specialists in historical performance practice who feels at home in different epochs. As concertmaster, she has led a wide range of projects, including the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Anima Eterna Bruges or the Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Her chamber music partners include Christian Rieger, Jaap ter Linden and Andreas Staier. In 2015 Midori Seiler received the Saxon Mozart Prize. Her extensive discography includes violin concertos by Mozart, Rimsky-Korsakoff's "Sheherazade" and her own reconstruction of Bach's lost violin concerto BWV 1052. Her longstanding collaboration with Jos van Immerseel is reflected in her recordings of the complete sonatas for violin and piano by Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. Her two publications of Bach's solo works received great media attention. After working as a professor of baroque violin at the conservatories in Weimar and Salzburg, she has been teaching at the Folkwang University of the Arts Essen since 2020. Since 2016, Midori Seiler has been the artistic director of the BachCollektiv of the Köthener Bachfesttage. Her love of experimenting with unusual concert formats has led to collaborations with contemporary dance, electronic music and choreographed performance: for example, she worked on Bach's sonatas for solo violin with two dancers - choreographed by Juan Kruz de Garaio Esnaola. Her album "La Venezia di Anna Maria" with Concerto Köln was awarded the OPUS Klassik in 2019.
