Mitsuko Uchida

One of the most revered artists of our time, Mitsuko Uchida is known as a peerless interpreter of the works of Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Beethoven, as well for being a devotee of the piano music of Berg, Schoenberg, Webern and Kurtág. She was Musical America’s 2022 Artist of the Year, and is a Carnegie Hall Perspectives Artist across the 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25 seasons.

She has enjoyed close relationships over many years with the world’s most renowned orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra, with whom she celebrated her 100th performance at Severance Hall. She has worked closely with conductors such as Bernard Haitink, Simon Rattle, Riccardo Muti, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Vladimir Jurowski, Andris Nelsons, Gustavo Dudamel and Mariss Jansons.

Mitsuko Uchida has been an artistic partner of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra since 2016 and is currently engaged on a five-year touring project with the Orchestra in Europe, North America and Asia. She also appears regularly in recital in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, London, New York and Tokyo, as well as being a frequent guest at the Mozartwoche Festival and the Salzburg Festival.

Mitsuko Uchida records exclusively for Decca. Her multiple award-winning discography includes the complete Mozart and Schubert piano sonatas. She is the recipient of two Grammy Awards, for Mozart piano concertos with the Cleveland Orchestra and for an album of Lieder with Dorothea Röschmann, while her recording of Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto with Pierre Boulez and the Cleveland Orchestra won the Gramophone Award for best concerto. Her latest recording, of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, was nominated for a Grammy, and won the 2022 Gramophone Piano Award.

A founding member of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust and director of Marlboro Music Festival, she is a recipient of the Golden Mozart Medal from the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association. She has also been awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society and holds honorary degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge. In 2009 she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.