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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 festival in Guangzhou, China, was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, and filmed in Questlove’s show, Quest for Craft. Over a decade, Mario has been a Member of Silkroad Ensemble (founded by Yo-Yo Ma and currently led by Rhiannon Giddens), and has performed with Silkroad across Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Korea, China, Canada and the USA. She was an original featured soloist in William Kentridge's large-scale theatrical piece "The Head & The Load" at the Holland Festival, Tate Modern (London), Ruhr Festival (Germany), Park Avenue Armory (NYC), Mass MoCA, and Arsht Center Miami. Her compositions have been featured in Tokyo, Japan for Anna Ziegler’s “Photograph 51” play about the British chemist Rosalind Franklin.

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

Mario has been invited to perform on worldwide broadcasts including TF1 French TV, NHK Japan, NPR, CBC, PBS TV, WQXR, WNYC, 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, Early Music Seattle, Music Academy of the West, Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance, International Computer Music Festival. Since a young age, Mario has performed as a featured soloist with orchestras in works by Bach, Barber, Dvorak, Glazunov, Mendelssohn, Pärt, Sarasate, Sibelius, Vivaldi, and Walton. She has performed and 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, Kristian Bezuidenhout, and Twelfth Night. Mario has also recorded for film/TV soundtracks, recently: Devil Wears Prada 2, Succession, Moonlight, Greatest Showman, Gemini Man, Madame Web, and "I Origins." In addition to winning a Grammy, she has been Grammy-nominated for five other recorded albums. Mario frequently performs as concertmaster, principal violin or principal viola with numerous orchestras, and plays with the New York Philharmonic as a guest violinist. Mario is also a longtime Member of The Knights ensemble, for which she has also served on the Board of Directors as its elected Musician Representative.

Mario was cast as the original violinist-violist in Lin-Manuel Miranda's Pulitzer-winning Broadway show "Hamilton" in NYC when it started at the Public Theater in 2015, and recorded the Film Soundtrack with its 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 official “Hamilton Instrumentals” (Karaoke) Album.

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 through Silkroad Connect. 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.