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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 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. 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, and Miami’s Arsht Center.

Mario has performed numerous times on The GrammysSaturday Night LiveThe Late Show with Stephen ColbertDavid Letterman, MTV VMAs, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, and performs and records regularly with stars including: Yo-Yo MaStevie Wonder, Paul SimonRoger Waters, Doja Cat, Ed Sheeran, Sting, Brian Wilson, Katy Perry, Sufjan StevensAdele (“Live in NYC” NBC Special), Dionne Warwick, Rhiannon Giddens, Arthur Verocai, Perfume GeniusJoshua Redman, Vijay Iyer, Brian Blade, Brad Mehldau, Aaron Diehl, Norah JonesDarren Criss, Twenty One Pilots, Angélique KidjoJim James (My Morning Jacket), Lucas Nelson, Nathaniel Rateliff, Bryce Dessner, Nico MuhlyEscortMumford & Sons, Jack Antonoff, Michael Bublé, Aimee Mann, Universal Zulu Nation, Stevie Van Zandt, E Street BandDamien RiceGoldfrappMy 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, 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, Town Hall, Webster Hall Grand Ballroom, Bowery Ballroom, The Egg (Beijing).

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, RaviniaTanglewoodCaramoorAspen Music Festival, Vail Dance Festival ReMix NYCMusic@Menlo, the Festival Consonances (France), Festival d'Aix-en-Provence (France), International Masterclasses Apeldoorn (Netherlands), Banff Centre (Canada),  Boston Early Music FestivalMusic Academy of the WestInstitute and Festival for Contemporary PerformanceInternational 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 KuertiEdgar Meyer, Pekka Kuusisto, Yuja Wang, Dawn UpshawSusan GrahamNobuko ImaiFrans 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,” "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, Mario can be heard on the #HamilFilm Motion Picture Film (Disney+) Soundtrack with original Broadway cast (the only Broadway Cast Recording ever to achieve RIAA Diamond Certification), the “Hamilton Mixtape,” and the “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, as well as in person for BCB’s multi-disciplinary Summer Intensive program. Dr. Gotoh is a “Professor” of Viola and Chamber Music for graduate level students at Longy School of Music of Bard College. Mario will be joining the Board of Trustees for The Knights starting in 2024 after being voted in by Knights musician membership.

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

 

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