THE UCHIDA FILE

Born 1948 studied in Japan and Vienna

First Prize in 1969 Beethoven Piano Competition

Most famous for her recordings of Mozart's piano concertos and sonatas ("If people want to call me a Mozart player, how nice to be associated with such a great genius")

"There is a certain scheme of my overall thinking, about the structure, about where it goes, how it goes, that's all there. But the first note changes it all the structure will always be there, but the rest is completely spontaneous.

Her latest recording, of works by Schumann, was welcomed in these columns as "cumulatively rewarding, and especially fine in the moments of greatest inwardness".