Mitsuko Uchida

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Dame Mitsuko Uchida DBE ( Japanese 内 田 光子 , Uchida Mitsuko ; born December 20, 1948 in Atami ) is a British pianist of Japanese origin.

Life

Uchida is the daughter of a diplomat stationed in Vienna. At the age of 12 she began studying music with Richard Hauser at the Vienna University of Music . At the age of 14 she gave her first public concert in the Brahms Hall of the Wiener Musikverein , which was soon followed by other appearances. She later took lessons from Wilhelm Kempff , Stefan Askenase and Nikita Magaloff . In 1969 she won first prize at the Vienna Beethoven Competition , and in 1970 she won second prize at the international Chopin Competition in Warsaw .

In 1972 she moved to London . Her international career began there. In 1975 she won 2nd prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition . In 1982 she played all of Mozart's piano sonatas in London's Wigmore Hall . After that, her recording career began. Uchida became known as one of the leading interpreters of Mozart , so she recorded all of his piano sonatas and piano concertos. Works by Schubert , Beethoven and Chopin as well as the composers of the Second Viennese School also belong to her repertoire . Here she received several awards for her recording of Arnold Schönberg's piano concerto .

In June 1984 she made her debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Seiji Ozawa . Concerts under the direction of conductors Christoph von Dohnányi and Jeffrey Tate followed. In 1986 she toured the USA with Yehudi Menuhin and the English Chamber Orchestra . In 1999 she took up all of Debussy's studies . In 1997 she began the project of recording all of Franz Schubert's piano sonatas , which was completed in 2002.

Uchida has also appeared frequently on television. In 1987, for example, the director Tony Palmer shot the Uchida portrait Mozart in Japan , which was broadcast by ZDF in 1989. In a 70-minute broadcast on June 27, 1990 on the ARD program, the pianist played and explained Claude Debussy's twelve etudes . And on December 31, 2006, she was the celebrated soloist in the annual New Year's Eve concert of the Berlin Philharmonic with Mozart's Piano Concerto in D minor, KV 466 . Uchida also works with well-known contemporary composers. So it premiered Matthias Pintscher's On A Clear Day on February 28, 2006 in Frankfurt. The piece is dedicated to her, among other things: “and for Mitsuko - to play”.

On February 14, 2011 she won the Grammy for the recording of Mozart: Piano Concerts No. 23 & 24 - The Cleveland Orchestra in the category “Best Instrumental Soloist (s) Performance (with Orchestra)”. In 2012 she was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society and in 2015 the Praemium Imperiale .

Awards

She was Artist in Residence of the Cleveland Orchestra (2002), the Berlin Philharmonic (2008/09) and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg (2016/17).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ First performance On a Clear Day
  2. ↑ BBC News, December 30, 2000
  3. ^ Member History: Mitsuko Uchida. American Philosophical Society, accessed February 10, 2019 .
  4. ↑ London Gazette, June 13, 2009
  5. ↑ Radio Swiss, database accessed on May 2, 2019
  6. ↑ BBC News, May 4, 2012
  7. ↑ Mitsuko Uchida, Konzerthaus Dortmund accessed on May 2, 2019,
  8. ↑ Mozart Week - Honors
  9. ↑ German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, accessed on May 2, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Uchida, Mitsuko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 内 田 光子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese-British pianist
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Atami