五藤舞央
DR. MARIO GOTOH

DEGREES:
Dual Doctor of Musical Arts:
Violin Performance, Stony Brook University
Viola Performance, Stony Brook University
M.M. Stony Brook University
B.M. & Performance Certificate, Violin Performance, Eastman School of Music

“Stunning, magical, unique…”
-Time Out New York, Anna Ben Yehuda

”…I'll be thinking about my one-to-one concert with Mario Gotoh for a long time to come.”
-National Public Radio, All Things Considered, Jeff Lunden

Born in Japan, Dr. Mario Gotoh is a Grammy Award-winning musician and composer who has distinguished themselves in dual roles as an innovative performing violinist and violist with a remarkably versatile performance style in all genres, with deep experience in creative collaboration.

Dr. Gotoh was invited by Yo-Yo Ma to teach at the Youth Music Culture Guangdong 2018 festival in Guangzhou, China. Mario is a member of the Silkroad Ensemble, founded by Yo-Yo Ma and currently led by Rhiannon Giddens, and has toured and performed with Silkroad in Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Korea, China, Canada and the USA. Mario is also a member of The Knights chamber ensemble, for which she has also served on the Board of Directors as an elected Musician Representative. She is also a featured soloist in William Kentridge's large-scale theatrical production "The Head & The Load," which recently performed at the Holland Festival, Tate Modern in London, Ruhr Festival Germany, Park Avenue Armory, Mass MoCA, and Miami’s Arsht Center. Her compositions have been featured in Tokyo, Japan for the theatrical production of Anna Ziegler’s play about the British chemist Rosalind Franklin: “Photograph 51”.

Mario has performed numerous times on The Grammys, The Tony Awards, Saturday Night Live, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, David Letterman, MTV VMAs, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, and performs and records regularly with stars including: Yo-Yo Ma, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Roger Waters, Doja Cat, Ed Sheeran, Sting, Brian Wilson, Katy Perry, Sufjan Stevens, Adele (“Live in NYC” NBC Special), Dionne Warwick, Rhiannon Giddens, Arthur Verocai, Perfume Genius, Joshua Redman, Vijay Iyer, Brian Blade, Brad Mehldau, Aaron Diehl, Norah Jones, Darren Criss, Twenty One Pilots, Angélique Kidjo, Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Lucas Nelson, Nathaniel Rateliff, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, Escort, Mumford & Sons, Jack Antonoff, Michael Bublé, Aimee Mann, Phoebe Bridgers, Cynthia Erivo, Universal Zulu Nation, Stevie Van Zandt, E Street Band, Damien Rice, Goldfrapp, My Brightest Diamond, Vanessa Hudgens, SayGrace, Jon Batiste, Woodkid, Miley Cyrus, Kimbra, Garrison Keillor & A Prairie Home Companion, Chris Thile, Aoife O’Donovan, and A Great Big World at venues such as The White House, Hollywood Bowl, Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, Madison Square Garden, Barclays Center, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Vienna Musikverein, Radio City Music Hall, Palace Het Loo, Carnegie Hall, The Met Museum, MoMA, Beacon Theatre, United Palace Theatre, Library of Congress, Webster Hall Grand Ballroom, Bowery Ballroom, Beijing’s The Egg, Beijing Poly Theatre, Taipei National Theatre Concert Hall, Qingdao Grand Theatre Opera House, Seoul Arts Center Concert Hall, Melbourne’s Hamer Hall.

Mario has been invited to perform on worldwide broadcasts including TF1 French TV, NHK Japan, NPR, CBC, PBS TV, WGBH, Sirius XM, and at arts festivals worldwide, including: Newport Folk Festival, Ojai Music Festival, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Perth Festival, WOMAD New Zealand, Ravinia, Tanglewood, Caramoor, Aspen Music Festival, Vail Dance Festival ReMix NYC, Music@Menlo, the Festival Consonances (France), Festival d'Aix-en-Provence (France), International Masterclasses Apeldoorn (Netherlands), Banff Centre (Canada), Boston Early Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance, International Computer Music Festival, and National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts' National ARTS Week. As a soloist with orchestras from a young age, Mario has been featured with numerous orchestras, featuring works by Bach, Barber, Dvorak, Glazunov, Mendelssohn, Arvo Pärt, Sarasate, Sibelius, Vivaldi, and Walton. She has performed and or recorded with many prominent classical musicians, including Yo-Yo Ma, Gil Shaham, Anton Kuerti, Edgar Meyer, Pekka Kuusisto, Yuja Wang, Dawn Upshaw, Susan Graham, Nobuko Imai, Frans Helmerson, Philippe Graffin, Avi Avital, Emerson String Quartet and early music with Paul O'Dette, and Kristian Bezuidenhout. Mario has also recorded for film/TV soundtracks, recently: “Succession,” “Madame Web,” "Gemini Man,” "Greatest Showman," "Moonlight," and "I Origins." In addition to winning a Grammy award, she has been nominated for a Grammy Award for five other recorded albums.

As the original violinist-violist in Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway Pulitzer Prize-winning musical "Hamilton" in NYC since it started at the Public Theater in 2015, Mario can be heard on the #HamilFilm Motion Picture Film (Disney+) Soundtrack with original Broadway cast, as well as the Original Broadway Cast Recording (the only Broadway Cast Recording ever to achieve RIAA Diamond Certification), the “Hamilton Mixtape,” and the “Hamilton Instrumentals” (Karaoke) Album. She is also filmed in Questlove’s “Quest for Craft” featuring the Silkroad Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma and Rhiannon Giddens.

Upon earning their Dual-Doctorate in Violin & Viola Performance from Stony Brook University, Mario was awarded the prestigious and singular SUNY-wide "Arts Honor" for "demonstrated excellence, originality and promise in the arts." Mario was also awarded and named SUNY Stony Brook University's "40 Under 40." Mario is a passionate educator and has served in this capacity at a number of New York area institutions through the college level. Through a partnership with Silkroad Ensemble and The Kennedy Center’s “Turnaround Arts” program led by former First Lady Michelle Obama, Mario recently taught creative music and chamber music classes at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and for BCB’s multi-disciplinary Summer Intensive program, as well as for the Fremont Unified School District in California . Dr. Gotoh is a “Professor” of Viola and Chamber Music for graduate level students at Longy School of Music of Bard College.

Mario is inspired by their community activism and advocacy, French and Japanese languages and cuisine, cooking, writing, visual arts, film, literature, swimming, and exploring cultures worldwide. Mario is writing original music for several upcoming projects.