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Yuko Uchiyama

Violinist

Violinist Yuko Uchiyama has performed as an orchestral soloist and recitalist throughout Japan, England and the United States. She has won several national and international prizes, including 2nd Prize at the 6th Yfrah Neaman International Violin Competition in Germany and the 2003 Washington International Competition for Strings, 1st Prize at the Japan International League competition in1997, and 1st Prize in 2000 at the Hatfield and District Music Festival in England. She was a semifinalist in the 2002 Tchaikovsky International Violin Competition in Moscow.

Uchiyama has received the Myra Hess Trust, Emily English, and Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation awards in London, and a Japanese Government Art Scholarship. In Japan, she was awarded the Debut Recital Award from the Japan Federation of Musicians and the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan, which lead to a solo recital in September 2001 at the historical Tokyo Bunka Kaikan hall.

She has appeared as a soloist with the New World Symphony, The de Havilland Philharmonic (formerly the Philharmonic at UH), Kanagawa Philharmonic, Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra, and Hibiki Hall Festival Orchestra. As an active chamber musician she has participated at the Yellow Barn Music Festival, and the Ravinia Festival where she collaborated with Atar Arad, Stephen Stirling and Boris Berman.

Yuko Uchiyama was born in Yamaguchi, Japan and began violin lessons at the age of three. She received a Bachelor of Music degree and Concert Recital diploma in 2000 (Premier Prix) from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where she studied with Yfrah Neaman. She received a Master degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music as a student of Donald Weilerstein, continuing to study with him at the New England Conservatory. Since 2005, she has been a member of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

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