Mitsuko Uchida

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Gold Medal

We are thrilled to announce that Mitsuko Uchida has been awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society's Gold Medal, one of classical music's highest honours. The Gold Medal was presented to her at the RPS Awards ceremony at the Dorchester Hotel in London on 8 May. Other, current RPS Gold Medallists include Bernard Haitink, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Janet Baker, Alfred Brendel, Colin Davis, Elliott Carter, Pierre Boulez, Simon Rattle, Placido Domingo, Daniel Barenboim, Henri Dutilleux, Thomas Quasthoff and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Further back into history, recipients have included Brahms (1877), Delius and Elgar (1925), Richard Strauss (1936), Stravinsky(1954), Britten and Bernstein (1987). For more information, please visit the Royal Philharmonic Society website.

Mitsuko Uchida has just completed a recital tour taking her to Vienna’s Musikverein, Paris’ Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Berlin’s Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall, and London’s Royal Festival Hall, performing Schubert’s final three piano Sonatas. Uchida’s performances were breathtaking, and met with acclaim from audiences and critics around the world. Michael Church wrote in The Independent (UK): “This was Schubert with wings; Uchida seemed to hover over the keyboard, keeping the music’s wayward impulses under hair-trigger control. …. The way she played the last sonata [D.960] was haunting and beautiful beyond words.”