Ayako Uehara

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Ayako Uehara ( Japanese 上原 彩 子 , Uehara Ayako ; born July 30, 1980 in Takamatsu ) is a Japanese classical pianist . In 2002 she became the first woman and the first Japanese citizen to win the International Tchaikovsky Competition for piano in Moscow.

life and work

Ayako Uehara studied piano, composition and musicology at the “ Yamaha Music School ” since she was three . Since 1990 she has been studying piano in the Yamaha Master Class with Fumiko Eguchi , Shinji Urakabe and Vera Gornostaeva . In 1992 Uehara won first prize at the "International Competition for Young Pianists" in Ettlingen , Germany. Uehara made her concert debut in 1995 at the Bunkamura Orchard Hall in Tokyo . Here she performed Beethoven's 1st Piano Concerto with the “National Symphony Orchestra” under Mstislav Rostropovich . In September 1995 she won second prize at the "International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians" in Sendai , Japan. In 1997 Uehara undertook an extensive concert tour through Poland with the “Bialystok Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra” under Marcin Nalecz-Niesiolowski . Ayako Uehara won second prize at the Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia in 2000 at the age of 19. In this competition she also won the audience award. Uehara became internationally known by winning the "International Tchaikovsky Competition" in Moscow two years later.

Uehara made her concert debut with the London Symphony Orchestra under Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos in the 2005/2006 season and performed again with this orchestra under Vasily Eduardowitsch Petrenko in the next season and in 2008 . She also made her debut with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra . Further engagements followed with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Fabio Luisi , the Dresden Philharmonic under Simone Young , the Russian National Orchestra under Mikhail Pletnev , the Toscanini Philharmonic Orchestra under Lorin Maazel . She toured Japan with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Marek Janowski and the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa . In May 2010 Ayako Uehara played Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto with the state symphony orchestra "Novaya Rossija" under the direction of Juri Bashmet on a tour through Japan.

Uehara has been giving solo concerts on tours through Japan every year since 2005. She performed at various festivals such as the Ruhr Piano Festival (2003), the “International Chopin Festival” in Poland (2002, 2005) and the Dubrovnik Festival in Croatia (2003). In 2007 and 2008 Uehara made her debuts in Copenhagen and at the Tonhalle in Zurich. In August 2010 Uehara took part in the 65th Chopin International Piano Festival in Dušníky , Poland.

Since 2003 Uehara has released three recordings with EMI International with works by Tchaikovsky , Mussorgsky and Prokofiev . In 2014 she switched to the King Records label and created her own piano arrangement from Tchaikovsky's “Nutcracker” and Rachmaninov's Preludes Op. 32 published.

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  • 1992 1st prize "International Competition for Young Pianists" in Ettlingen, Germany
  • 1995 2nd prize “International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians” in Sendai, Japan
  • 2000 2nd prize "Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia" (also the audience prize)
  • 2002 1st prize “International Tchaikovsky Competition” in the piano category

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  1. ↑ after: Annette Herd, 2017
  2. ↑ a b to: Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra
personal data
SURNAME Uehara, Ayako
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 上原 彩 子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese pianist
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Takamatsu