Dame Mitsuko Uchida, is a Japanese-English classical pianist and conductor.
21 Facts About Mitsuko Uchida
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Mitsuko Uchida has appeared with many notable orchestras, recorded a wide repertory with several labels, won numerous awards and honours and is the co-artistic director, with Jonathan Biss, of the Marlboro Music School and Festival.
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Mitsuko Uchida enrolled at the Vienna Academy of Music to study with Richard Hauser and later Wilhelm Kempff and Stefan Askenase.
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Mitsuko Uchida gave her first Viennese recital at the age of 14 at the Vienna Musikverein.
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Mitsuko Uchida studied with Maria Curcio, the last and favourite pupil of Artur Schnabel.
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Mitsuko Uchida remained in Vienna to study when her father was transferred back to Japan after five years.
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Mitsuko Uchida was awarded tenth prize at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in 1968, playing Beethoven, Debussy, and Gaston Brenta in the finals.
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In 1969 Mitsuko Uchida won the first prize in the International Beethoven Piano Competition Vienna and in 1970 the second prize in the VIII International Chopin Piano Competition.
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In 1998 Mitsuko Uchida was the music director of the Ojai Music Festival in conjunction with conductor and violinist, David Zinman.
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Mitsuko Uchida is an acclaimed interpreter of the works of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Debussy and Schoenberg.
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Mitsuko Uchida has recorded all of Mozart's piano sonatas and concerti, the latter with the English Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Jeffrey Tate.
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Mitsuko Uchida's recording of the Schoenberg Piano Concerto with Pierre Boulez won another Gramophone Award.
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Mitsuko Uchida is further noted for her recordings of Beethoven's complete piano concerti with Kurt Sanderling conducting, Beethoven's late piano sonatas, and a Schubert piano cycle.
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Mitsuko Uchida is respected as a distinguished interpreter of the works of the Second Viennese School.
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Mitsuko Uchida's 2009 recording of the Mozart piano concertos nos.
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Mitsuko Uchida has conducted the English Chamber Orchestra, from the keyboard.
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Mitsuko Uchida was senior artist at the Marlboro Music School and Festival in 1974 and 1992, and has been permanently associated with Marlboro since 1994 when she became a member of the Committee for Artistic Direction.
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Mitsuko Uchida served as the sole director until 2018 when Marlboro Music announced that American pianist Jonathan Biss would assume the role of co-artistic director.
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Mitsuko Uchida is a founding trustee of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust, an organisation established to help young artists develop and sustain international careers.
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Just when Mitsuko Uchida was starting to seem predictable, the goddess of purity, the pianist goes and exhibits another persona altogether.
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Mitsuko Uchida's 2022 recording of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations was nominated for a Grammy for Best Classical Instrumental Solo and won a Gramophone Piano Award.