Midori Seiler Photo shooting 2004

Midori Seiler, the daughter of a Japanese pianist mother and a Bavarian Pianist father, grew up in Salzburg.
Her musical training took her from Salzburg via Basel and London to Berlin, where she now lives. Her teachers were Helmut Zehetmair, Sandor Végh, Adelina Oprean, Thomas Hengelbrock, David Takeno, Eberhard Feltz and Stephan Mai.

Since 1991 Midori Seiler has been a member and since 2000 a concertmistress of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin,with which she regularly appears as a soloist and has recorded violin concertos by Telemann and Bach, including her own reconstruction (after BWV 1052) of a lost violin concerto by the latter.
An important musical experience was her collaboration on seventeenth-century Italian operas with René Jacobs as a member of his ensemble Concerto Vocale.
She has taught at masterclasses in Bruges and Antwerp and from 2001 to 2004 held a teaching position in the Musikhochschule Weimar.

Member of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Photo shooting 2003	With Jos van Immerseel Photo shooting 2005

Since meeting Jos van Immerseel in 1998, Midori has devoted herself not only to baroque and classical repertoire, but also the the historical performance practice of the 19th century.
As leader of van Immerseel's orchestra Anima Eterna, she has taken part in recordings of works by Tchaikovsky, Liszt, Ravel, Borodin and Rimsky-Korsakov, in Rimsky's 'Sheherezade' she played the violin solo part.
Midori Seiler also partners Jos van Immerseel in the field of chamber music: their CD set of Mozart's seven great sonatas for keyboard and violin was enthusiastically recieved and awarded a 'Diapason d' Or de l'année 2003'. Their CD of the sonatas by Franz Schubert was released recently.