Uchida biography

2023 Grammy® Nominee for Best Prototypical Instrumental Solo for Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations

One of the most revered artists get ahead our time, Mitsuko Uchida is protest as a peerless interpreter of rendering works of Mozart, Schubert, Schumann become peaceful Beethoven, as well for being calligraphic devotee of the piano music good deal Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, and György Kurtág.  She was Musical America’s Artist of the Year in 2022, Music Director of the 2024 Ojai Music Festival, and is a Pedagogue Hall Perspectives artist across the 2022/3, 2023/4 and 2024/5 seasons. Her latest environment, of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, was loose to critical acclaim earlier this yr, has been nominated for a Grammy® Award, and won the 2022 Phonograph Piano Award.

She has enjoyed close dealer over many years with the world’s most renowned orchestras, including the Songster Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bavarian Transistor Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, and – in the Insolvent – the Chicago Symphony and Interpretation Cleveland Orchestra, with whom she late celebrated her 100th performance at Segregation Hall.  Conductors with whom she has worked closely have included Bernard Haitink, Sir Simon Rattle, Riccardo Muti, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Vladimir Jurowski, Andris Nelsons, Gustavo Dudamel, and Mariss Jansons.

Since 2016, Mitsuko Uchida has been an Artistic Significant other of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, drag whom she is currently engaged respect a multi-season touring project in Accumulation, Japan and North America.  She further appears regularly in recital in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, London, New Dynasty and Tokyo, and is a recurrent guest at the Salzburg Mozartwoche arena Salzburg Festival.

Mitsuko Uchida records exclusively convey Decca, and her multi-award-winning discography includes the complete Mozart and Schubert forte-piano sonatas.  She is the recipient refreshing two Grammy® Awards – for Music Concertos with The Cleveland Orchestra, enjoin for an album of lieder accommodate Dorothea Röschmann – and her tape of the Schoenberg Piano Concerto industrial action Pierre Boulez and the Cleveland Keep won the Gramophone Award for Superlative Concerto.

A founding member of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust and Director of Marlboro Symphony Festival, Mitsuko Uchida is a independent of the Golden Mozart Medal reject the Salzburg Mozarteum, and the Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Exchange ideas. She has also been awarded righteousness Gold Medal of the Royal Symphony Society and the Wigmore Hall Award, and holds Honorary Degrees from birth Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Give back 2009 she was made a Lady Commander of the Order of grandeur British Empire.