Carnegie Hall

(NEW YORK, NY; February 2, 2023)— On Friday, February 24 at 8:00 p.m., acclaimed pianist Mitsuko Uchida launches her three-season Perspectives series with a solo recital in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage with an all-Beethoven program that features the composer’s final three piano sonatas. This program revisits the repertoire she originally performed 20 years ago as part of her first Perspectives series in November 2003 and again in October 2009.

An incomparable interpreter of music by Mozart, Ms. Uchida’s Perspectives continues on Wednesday, March 1 at 3:00 p.m. with a public master class for young professional pianists focused on select piano concerti by the composer, presented by Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute in the Hall’s Resnick Education Wing.

The following week, Ms. Uchida’s performance with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra on Thursday, March 9 at 8:00 pm. features two of the composer’s late piano concerti which she will lead from the keyboard, part of a multi-season survey of Mozart’s works. Also included on the program is Schoenberg’s Kammersymphonie No. 1. This performance will be heard live by listeners around the world through the Carnegie Hall Live broadcast and digital series, created in partnership with WQXR. Co-hosted by WQXR’s Jeff Spurgeon and New Sounds’ John Schaefer, the concert will be broadcast on WQXR 105.9 FM in New York and streamed online at wqxr.org and carnegiehall.org/wqxr.

In a recent interview, Uchida offered: “One thing is clear: Carnegie Hall is magic. Most gigantic halls demand pianists to play loudly, and Carnegie doesn’t. Here you can whisper. And that—allowing me the ability to whisper on stage— is why I adore Carnegie Hall.” For more of that interview visit carnegiehall.org/uchida.  

 

About the Artist
A performer celebrated for bringing deep insight into the music she plays, Mitsuko Uchida is known as a peerless interpreter of the works of Mozart, Schubert, Robert Schumann, and Beethoven, as well for being a devotee of the piano music of Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, and György Kurtág.

Ms. Uchida has enjoyed close relationships with the world’s most renowned orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, and London Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductors with whom she has worked closely throughout her career have included Bernard Haitink, Sir Simon Rattle, Riccardo Muti, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Vladimir Jurowski, Andris Nelsons, Gustavo Dudamel, and Mariss Jansons.

Since 2016, Ms. Uchida has been an artistic partner of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, with whom she is currently engaged on a multi-season touring project in Europe, Japan, and North America. She also appears regularly in recital in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, London, New York, and Tokyo, and is a frequent guest at the Salzburg Mozart Week and Salzburg Festival. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in 1976 and has returned for more than 40 performances, appearing in all three concert halls—including as a Perspectives artist in the 2002–2003 and 2003–2004 seasons.

Mitsuko Uchida records exclusively for Decca, and her multi-award-winning discography includes the complete Mozart and Schubert piano sonatas. She is the recipient of two Grammy Awards–for Mozart Concertos with The Cleveland Orchestra, and for an album of lieder with Dorothea Röschmann–and her recording of the Schoenberg 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 released to critical acclaim last year, has been nominated for a Grammy Award, and won the 2022 Gramophone Piano Award.

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

Program Information
Friday, February 24, 2023 at 8:00 PM
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
MITSUKO UCHIDA, Piano

ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM
Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109
Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, Op. 110
Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111

Sponsored by Ernst & Young LLP

Mitsuko Uchida’s Perspectives series is made possible by a leadership gift from Jean and Melanie Salata.

Support for this concert is provided by The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation.

Tickets: $83–$175
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Wednesday, March 1, 2023 at 3:00 PM
Resnick Education Wing
MITSUKO UCHIDA MASTER CLASS

Support for this masterclass is provided by The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation.

Lead support for workshops and master classes is provided by Beatrice Santo Domingo, and Mr. and Mrs. Anthony B. Evnin and the A.E. Charitable Foundation.

Workshops and master classes for pianists are made possible, in part, by the Gary C. and Ethel B. Thom Fund for Piano Performance and Education.

Tickets $25
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Thursday, March 9, 2023 at 8:00 PM
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
MAHLER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mitsuko Uchida, Piano and Director
José Maria Blumenschein, Concertmaster and Leader

MOZART Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503
SCHOENBERG Kammersymphonie No. 1
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat Major, K. 595

This performance is sponsored by Nomura.

Mitsuko Uchida’s Perspectives series is made possible by a leadership gift from Jean and Melanie Salata.

Support for this concert is provided by The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation.

Tickets $36–$120.

 

 

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