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Japanese-born British pianist and conductor
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Also known as: Dame Mitsuko Uchida
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Dame Mitsuko Uchida
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December 20, 1948, Atami, Shizuoka, Japan (age 76)

Mitsuko Uchida (born December 20, 1948, Atami, Shizuoka, Japan) is a Japanese-born British classical pianist and conductor whose dynamic and emotional interpretations of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, and Ludwig van Beethoven made her one of the leading classical musicians of her day. Uchida was raised in the coastal town of Atami, about 60 miles (almost 100 km) southwest of Tokyo, the youngest of three children of a diplomat. She studied piano as a young child at her father’s behest, but her musical training began in earnest after her family moved to Vienna when Uchida was 12 years old. There ...(100 of 442 words)

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