Radio/TV

Below is a selection of media features and broadcasts:

BBC Radio 3 - Night Tracks

'Cha no yu' from album 'Chashitsu: Auditory Tea Room' featured

Midori with players from the Reigakusha ensemble in the BBC Radio 3 studio 

Midori plays and talks about Vaughan Williams from NHK studio

 

Midori as guest speaker, discussing Vaughan Williams with conductor Sachio Fujioka


OTTAVA  Accademia 

Midori talk about giving the First Public Performance of Imogen Holst's Violin Concerto, with Naoki Hayashida

with Taro Hakase

News feature about Midori's  initiative to introduce British  and Japanese composers



Other broadcasts: 

July 2024

BBC Radio 3 

Night Tracks

Window featured as the opening track for this programme, presented by Sara Mohr-Pietcsh


May-August 2022

 

Guest appearances on:

BBC Radio 3,  In Tune

BBC Radio 3, Music Matters - Vaughan Williams Today

BBC World Service - Weekend


July 2019 

TV Commercial

All Nippon Airways

Midori appears in this commercial East meets West in introducing the new luxury cabin designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma and British designer Acumen. 


March 2019 

J-Wave 

ANA World Air Current 

Midori appears as guest on this popular show with presenter Taro Hakase


April 2018 

BBC Radio 3

Night Blossoms 

Midori with Tom Service in Japan, interviewing composers and artists

 

Music Planet

An introduction to traditional Japanese gagaku music

Midori interviews the Reigakusha Ensemble


April 2018

TV Tokyo

Enter the Music

Midori appears as guest on this weekly music programme, with conductor Sachio Fujioka and TV Tokyo presenter Miki Handa


28th July 2017

OTTAVA Radio Japan 

Midori appeared as guest, discussing her 'Delius Project' in Japan. 


July 2017 - 2018

British Airways in-flight Entertainment 

Midori's 2nd Album Warp & Weft featured as 'BA Recommends'


23rd May 2017 

BBC Radio 3

Midori's 2nd Album Warp & Weft featured on Late Junction

Alan Rawsthorne: Theme and Variations 

 


12th October 2016

Podcast: Japan Sound Portrait

Interview with Nick Luscombe

Toshio Hosokawa: Spell for Solo Violin


5th October 2016

BBC Radio 3 Late Junction

Nick Luscombe (Presenter)

Toshio Hosokawa 'Spell for Solo Violin'

Live Recording from Toshio Hosokawa 60th Anniversary Concert, Tokyo

 


31st October ~ 1st November 2015

Cafe Figaro, Blue Radio, Tokyo

Naoki Hayashida (Presenter)

Midori Komachi (Guest)


1st April 2014

BBC Radio 3 'in Tune'

Suzy Klein (Presenter)

Midori Komachi & Simon Callaghan

Live Performance and Interview

Delius: Sonata for Violin and Piano No.3

Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Piano in G major


11th March 2012

TBS TV 情熱大陸

with Taro Hakase

Live Broadcast from Cadogan Hall, London

Charity concert at Cadogan Hall