Named Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of Southern California in 2012, Midori continues work with her students at USC's Thornton School, where she is also Jascha Heifetz Chair and Chair of the Strings Department. To these commitments she adds substantial periods of time devoted to the four community engagement programs she has founded in the U.S. and Japan: Midori & Friends, Partners in Performance, Orchestra Residencies Program and Music Sharing. In recognition of the breadth and quality of her work, she was given the prestigious Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2012.
Midori's recordings have included the Bruch and Mendelssohn concertos with the Berlin Philharmonic and Mariss Jansons, the Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich Concertos No.1 with the Berlin Philharmonic and Claudio Abbado and a Mozart recording with Christoph Eschenbach. Midori's recital recordings include the Elgar and Franck sonatas, and an album of French sonatas.
Midori's violin is the 1734 Guarnerius del Gesù "ex-Huberman".
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