Devoted to teaching and mentorship, Dr. Gotoh is currently a faculty member at the Longy School of Music of Bard College.

Dr. Gotoh is actively committed to bringing music to a diverse community in outreach workshops, including: Sing Sing Correctional Facility with Joyce DiDonato in partnership with Carnegie Hall (segment on The Today Show), #CLOSErikers, hospitals, and nursing homes. Mario is a member of the Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Committee in The Knights, and is a volunteer for several social justice organizations around New York City.

Mario was invited by Yo-Yo Ma to teach and mentor musicians (through age 35) in violin, viola, chamber music, and lead orchestra sectionals at the YMCG (Youth Music Culture Guangdong) music festival and workshop in Guangzhou, China. Mario has worked in teaching masterclasses and workshops across the globe, including with Juilliard-Nord Anglia Performing Arts workshops in China, Taiwan, and residencies at Dartmouth College, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and University of Maryland.

For many years, Dr. Gotoh has taught at several New York area institutions from precollege through adult education, including undergraduate violinists as the Teaching Assistant to the violin faculty at SUNY Stony Brook, where Mario also taught western music history courses in the classroom, served as a Teaching Assistant and Concertmaster in coaching the university’s undergraduate orchestra, and coached ensembles in undergraduate chamber music. Mario has also been invited to serve as a judge for the Sphinx Orchestral Partners Auditions, and Manhattan School of Music Precollege competitions. Mario recently taught creative music and chamber music classes at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, as well as for BCB’s multi-disciplinary Summer Intensive program.

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