What is Mitsuko Uchida?
{{Infobox musical artist | honorific_prefix = [[Dame]] | name = Mitsuko Uchida | honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|DBE]] | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | image = | image_size = | caption = | native_name = 內田光子 | native_name_lang = jp | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1948|12|20}} | birth_place = [[Atami|Atami, Shizuoka]], [[Japan]] | death_date = | death_place = | restingplace = | othername = | occupation = Classical pianist | yearsactive = | spouse = | children = | website = {{url|www.mitsukouchida.com/}} }} {{nihongo|'''Dame Mitsuko Uchida''', [[Order of the British Empire|DBE]]|内田光子|Uchida Mitsuko}} (born Atami, [[Japan]], [[December 20]], [[1948]]) is a [[Japan]]ese [[pianist]] who lives in [[London]]. ==Life== Mitsuko Uchida was born in Atami, a seaside town near [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]]. When she was 12 her father became the Japanese [[ambassador]] to [[Austria]], so the family moved to [[Vienna]]. She studied at the Vienna Academy of Music. Her teachers were Richard Hauser, and later [[Wilhelm Kempff]] and [[Stefan Askenase]]. She gave her first [[recital]] when she was 14 in the Vienna [[Musikverein]]. After five years, her father went back to Japan, but she stayed in Vienna. In 1969 she won the first prize in the Beethoven Competition in Vienna and in 1970 the second prize in the [[International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition]]. Then, in 1975, she won second prize in the [[Leeds Piano Competition]]. Her career has been very successful. She played all the Mozart Piano Concertos with the [[Cleveland Orchestra]]. She is well known for her playing of the works of [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]], [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]], [[Franz Schubert|Schubert]], [[Frédéric Chopin|Chopin]], [[Claude Debussy|Debussy]] and [[Arnold Schoenberg|Schoenberg]]. Her recordings include all of Mozart's [[piano]] [[sonata]]s and [[concerto]]s, and won many awards for her recordings. Uchida now lives in [[London]]. Uchida was made a [[Dame Commander of the Order