INSTRUMENTAL: Violinist Midori is not only the festival’s featured performer but will spend a weeklong residency worth with students of the Asheville Symphony Youth Orchestra. Midori plays a 1734 Guarnerius del Gesù “ex-Huberman” violin. etween a
player and a violin exists a unique chemistry,” she says. “A violin can inspire as well as to criticize its player, and a player grows with the instrument.” Photo by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders