(born December 20, 1948) is a Japanese-born British classical pianist.
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Career
Born in
Atami, a seaside town close to
Tokyo,
Japan, Uchida moved to
Vienna,
Austria when she was twelve years old with her
diplomat parents after her father was named the Japanese ambassador to Austria. She enrolled at the
Vienna Academy of Music to study with
Richard Hauser, and later
Wilhelm Kempff and
Stefan Askenase, and remained in Vienna to study after her father was transferred back to Japan after five years. She gave her first Viennese recital at the age of 14 at the Vienna
Musikverein.
In 1969 she won the first prize in the Beethoven Competition in Vienna and in 1970 the second prize in the
International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition. Then, in 1975, she won second prize in the
Leeds Piano Competition.
[1] From 2002 to 2007 she served as artist-in-residence for the Cleveland Orchestra, where she led performances of all of Mozart's solo piano concertos.
She is an acclaimed interpreter of the works of
Mozart,
Beethoven,
Schubert,
Chopin,
Debussy and
Schoenberg. She has recorded all of Mozart's
piano sonatas (a project that won the
Gramophone Award), and
concerti, the latter with the
English Chamber Orchestra, conducted by
Jeffrey Tate. She 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. Her recording of the
Debussy Études
won another Gramophone Award, and so did her recording of the
Schoenberg piano concerto. In April 2008,
BBC Music Magazine
presented her its Instrumentalist of the Year and Disc of the Year award. (She is distinguished as an interpreter of the works of the
Second Viennese School.)
She is an Artistic Director of the
Marlboro Music School and Festival, along with fellow pianist
Richard Goode. She is also a trustee of the
Borletti-Buitoni Trust, an organization established to help young artists develop and sustain international careers.
[2] Uchida is a recipient of the 1986
Suntory Music Award.
Uchida currently resides in
London.
Honours
Mitsuko Uchida was appointed Honorary
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2001
New Year Honours. The award was honorary because she was a citizen of Japan.
[3]
She was promoted
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2009
Queen's Birthday Honours.
[4] On this occasion, the award was substantive,
[5] which means she has acquired British citizenship.
In June 2009 she was awarded a Honoris causa Doctor of Music (D.Mus.) degree by the
University of Oxford. The award was granted during the
Encaenia 2009 held at the
Sheldonian Theatre in the hearth of the University of Oxford.
[6]
References
- "Uchida, Mitsuko", ''Grove Music Online'', 2007. Accessed June 3 2007.
- "About Us",
''Marlboro Music School and Festival Official Website'', 2007. Accessed June 3, 2007.
- BBC News, 30 December 2000
- {{LondonGazette |issue=59090 |date=13 June 2009 |startpage=7 |supp=yes |notarchive=yes}}
- Honorary awards are specifically listed as such, and are not usually gazetted
- "Oxford University Gazette, 5 February 2009" [1]