Mitsuko Uchida is a pianist born in Japan in 1952. She is an acclaimed interpreter of the works of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. She has recorded all of Mozart's pianosonatas and concerti. She is the Artistic Director of the Marlboro Music School and Festival.
Miss Uchida, born in 1948, studied from the age of twelve in Vienna, where her father was stationed as a diplomat.
Miss Uchida is noted for her performances and recordings of Mozart—she has recorded all the Mozart concertos, with Jeffrey Tate and the English Chamber Orchestra, for Philips.
Here, in Miss Uchida’s performance, Schoenberg’s dynamic indications, in which only one lonely and brief mezzo-forte and one piano competes with the prevailing level of pianissimo, were perfectly realized; as was true in her earlier Webern performance, the technical means of performance were perfectly attuned to the emotional content of the music.
MitsukoUchida continued her studies with Richard Hauser at the Vienna Academy of Music.
Despite her success and fame, MitsukoUchida barely gives 50 concerts and records only one CD a year (exclusively for Philips).
MitsukoUchida plays Schubert as if he were still alive, conveying his tenderness, his subdued passion, his nostalgia, and the mystery surrounding his music.
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