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Mitsuko Uchida - Piano

Royal Festival Hall, 25-Jan-2024 / 19:30

Mitsuko Uchida accompanied Magdalena Kožená on the 9th of October 2023 at the Wigmore Hall.

Wigmore Hall, 8-Oct-2023 / 19:30

Wigmore Hall, 8-Sep-2023 / 19:30

Wigmore Hall, 11-Jun-2023 / 19:30

Wigmore Hall, 10-Jun-2023 / 19:30

Royal Festival Hall, 5-Apr-2023 / 19:30

Favourite pieces

Mozart's : Piano Concerto No.25 in C K503 performed in 2023 (February) and 2016 (November).

Schubert's Impromptu in C minor D899 No. 1 performed in 2021 (June) and 2017 (February).

Schubert's 4 Impromptus D935 performed in 2021 (June) and 2014 (October).

Schubert's Piano Sonata in C D840 'Reliquie' performed in 2020 (December) and 2018 (December, 7).

Schubert's Piano Sonata in G D894 performed in 2020 (December) and 2018 (November).

Royal Festival Hall, 1-Feb-2023 / 19:30

  • Mozart: Piano Concertos No.25 and No.27 in B flat K595
  • Schoenberg

Barbican Hall, 30-Nov-2022 / 19:00

  • Schumann: Piano Concerto

Royal Festival Hall, 29-Apr-2022 / 19:30

  • György Kurtág: Play with Infinity from Játékok Bk.3
  • Mozart: Fantasia in C minor K475
  • Schumann

Royal Festival Hall, 9-Apr-2022 / 19:30

  • Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.4
  • London Philharmonic Orchestra

Wigmore Hall, 17-May-2022 / 19:30

Recital with Mark Padmore

  • Beethoven:
    • An die Hoffnung Op. 94
    • Resignation WoO. 149
    • Abendlied unterm gestirnten Himmel WoO. 150
    • An die ferne Geliebte Op. 98
  • Schubert: Schwanengesang D957

Wigmore Hall, 15-May-2022 / 19:30

Royal Festival Hall, 5-Feb-2022 / 19:30

  • Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Unfortunately, Mitsuko Uchida's concert scheduled for the 12th of March 2021 at the Royal Festival Hall was cancelled due to the pandemic

Her concert with Simon Rattle scheduled for the 14th of January 2021 at the Barbican Hall was also cancelled.

Royal Festival Hall, 10-Jun-2021 / 19:30

  • Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.3
  • Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen - Conductor

Wigmore Hall, 2-Jun-2021 / 19:30

  • Schubert: 4 Impromptus D899
  • Schoenberg: No. 2 Langsam from Six Little Piano Pieces Op. 19

Wigmore Hall, 16-Dec-2020 / 19:30

  • Schubert: Fantasy Sonatas D894 and D840

Mitsuko Uchida played the 1st movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and Kurtág's quasi una fantasia with Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra on the 30th of August 2020 at the BBC Proms.

Wigmore Hall, 26-Jun-2020 / 13:00

Recital with Mark Padmore

  • Schubert: Winterreise D911

Mozart: Piano Concerto in D minor K466

Royal Festival Hall, 31-Jan-2020 / 19:30

  • Mozart: Piano Concerto No.17 in G K453
  • Jörg Widmann: String Quartet No.2 (arr. chamber orchestra)
  • Mozart: Piano Concerto No.22 in E flat K482
  • Mitsuko Uchida - Piano, director
  • Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Mitsuko Uchida performed with Simon Keenlyside and Rowan Pierce at a charity concert in aid of the Hands Up Foundation on the 12th of June 2019 at the Cadogan Hall.

Royal Festival Hall, 6-Feb-2019 / 19:30

Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Mitsuko Uchida - Director, Piano

  • Mozart, Piano Concertos:
    • No.19 in F K459
    • No.20 in D minor K466
  • Berg: 3 Pieces from the Lyric Suite (arr. for string orchestra)

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5

Royal Festival Hall, 7-Dec-2018 / 19:30

  • Schubert, sonatas in: A minor D537, D840 and B flat D960

Royal Festival Hall, 4-Dec-2018 / 19:30

  • Schubert, sonatas in: E flat D568, A minor D784 and A D959

In 2013 She became Artistic Director of the Marlboro Music School and Festival in Vermont in 2013.

She was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2009.

And won first prize in in Vienna's Beethoven Competition in 1969

Dame Mitsuko Uchida was born in Atami, Japan in December 1948.

Royal Festival Hall, 29-Sep-2018 / 19:30

  • Mozart: Piano Concerto No.27 in B flat
  • Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
  • London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Vladimir Jurowski - Conductor

Mitsuko Uchida performed:

  • Schubert's Sonatas D575, D845 and D850 on the 1st of December 2017 at the Royal Festival Hall.
  • Schubert's Sonatas D958, D664 and D894 on the 28th of November 2017 at the Royal Festival Hall.
  • Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 3 with the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Bernard Haitink on the 1st of June 2017 at the Barbican Hall.

Mark Padmore performed Schubert's Winterreise accompanied by Mitsuko Uchida at the Wigmore Hall on the 11th of December 2017.

Wigmore Hall, 9-Feb-2017 / 19:30

Recital with clarinetist Jörg Widmann

  • Brahms: Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1
  • Berg: 4 Pieces for Clarinet and Piano Op. 5
  • Widmann: Sonatina facile (UK première)
  • Schumann: Fantasiestücke Op. 73

Royal Festival Hall, 31-Jan-2017 / 19:30

  • Mozart: Piano Sonata in C K545
  • Schumann:
    • Kreisleriana Op.16
    • Fantasie in C Op.17

Royal Festival Hall, 29-Nov-2016 / 19:30

Mitsuko Uchida's concert scheduled for the 26th of April 2016 at the Royal Festival Hall was cancelled due to illness.

Wigmore Hall, 6-Dec-2015 / 19:30

  • Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat major Op. 44
  • Quatuor Ébène, Mitsuko Uchida

Wigmore Hall, 5-Oct-2015 / 19:30

Recital with mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená

Royal Albert Hall, 4-Sep-2015 / 19:30

Wigmore Hall, 2nd and 5th of May 2015

Recital with soprano Dorothea Röschmann

Royal Festival Hall, 12-Feb-2015 / 19:30

Royal Festival Hall, 16-Oct-2014 / 19:30

Royal Festival Hall, 16-Apr-2014 / 19:30

Vladimir Jurowski - Conductor, London Philharmonic Orchestra

Wigmore Hall, 17-Dec-2013 / 19:30

She won the Gramophone Award for Best Instrumental Recording in 1989.

Royal Albert Hall, 8-Aug-2013

  • Beethoven

Wigmore Hall, 20-May-2012 / 19:30

Recital with mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kozena

  • Mahler, Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Rheinlegendchen

Mitsuko Uchida made her BBC Proms debut on the 3rd of August 1983 in a performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor with Scottish Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Gustav Kuhn.