Carnegie Hall

One of the most revered artists of our time, Mitsuko Uchida is known as a peerless interpreter of the works of Mozart, Schubert, R. Schumann, and Beethoven, as well as a devotee of the piano music of Berg, Schoenberg, Webern, and György Kurtág. She was Musical America’s 2022 Artist of the Year, music director of the 2024 Ojai Music Festival, and is a multi-year Carnegie Hall Perspectives artist. Her latest recording, of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, was nominated for a Grammy Award and won the 2022 Gramophone Piano Award.

Ms. Uchida has enjoyed close relationships with the world’s most renowned orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and The Cleveland Orchestra, with which she recently celebrated her 100th performance at Severance Hall. Conductors with whom she has worked closely include Bernard Haitink, Sir Simon Rattle, Riccardo Muti, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Vladimir Jurowski, Andris Nelsons, Gustavo Dudamel, and Mariss Jansons.

Since 2016, Ms. Uchida has been an artistic partner of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, with which she is currently engaged in a multi-season touring project in Europe, Japan, and North America. She also appears regularly in recital in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, London, New York, and Tokyo, and is a frequent guest at the Salzburg Mozart Week and Salzburg Festival.

The recipient of two Grammy Awards, Ms. Uchida records exclusively for Decca, and her multi–award-winning discography includes the complete Mozart and Schubert piano sonatas.

A founding member of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust and director of the Marlboro Music Festival, Ms. Uchida is a recipient of the Golden Mozart Medal from the Salzburg Mozarteum, and the Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association. She has also been awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society and the Wigmore Hall Medal, and holds honorary degrees from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. In 2009, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

The Musicians from Marlboro touring program was created as an extension of Vermont’s Marlboro Music Festival, founded in 1951. Musicians from Marlboro tours are noted not only for their joyous performances but also for offering valuable touring experience to artists at the beginning of their careers and touring with unusual chamber repertoire. Since their inception, the Musicians from Marlboro tours have introduced such great talents as Richard Goode, Yefim Bronfman, Jaime Laredo, Murray Perahia, Paula Robison, Sir András Schiff, Peter Serkin, Richard Stoltzman, and Benita Valente. They have also featured other exceptional artists heard in the Emerson, Juilliard, Takács, and Dover quartets and Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio. In the words of The Washington Post, “Musicians from Marlboro is a virtual guarantee of musical excellence!”

Violinist Stephanie Zyzak is quickly gaining a reputation as one of the most soulful and profound musicians of her generation. A deeply passionate chamber musician, she has been praised for her sensitive musicianship and heartfelt playing. She has had the privilege of collaborating with many renowned musicians, including Jonathan Biss, Kim Kashkashian, Ida Kavafian, Alice Neary, Daniel Phillips, Marcy Rosen, and Mitsuko Uchida. She has also performed at Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, Caramoor, and the Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival. Born in South Carolina, Ms. Zyzak is a graduate of New England Conservatory, where she studied with Miriam Fried. Currently, she is studying at CUNY Graduate Center with Mark Steinberg. She is also a founding member of ensemble132, a roster-based chamber music collective, and was a 2020–2022 Ensemble Connect fellow at Carnegie Hall. Ms. Zyzak performs on a 1778 Joseph and Antonio Gagliano violin, generously on loan from Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, and a bow by François Nicolas Voirin.

Beth Guterman Chu is principal violist of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. A native of Belmont, Massachusetts, she was a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and, as a chamber musician, has performed with distinguished artists and ensembles including Itzhak Perlman, Menahem Pressler, Gil Shaham, David Finckel, Wu Han, Joseph Kalichstein, Edgar Meyer, the Orion Quartet, and members of the Guarneri Quartet. Ms. Chu regularly teaches and performs at the Aspen Music Festival and School and serves on the faculty of Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America. She has also participated in many summer festivals including the Marlboro Music Festival, Music@Menlo, Bravo! Vail, and Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival. She has recorded chamber music on the Deutsche Grammophon, Tzadik, and Naxos labels and has toured across the US, Europe, and Asia. She is a member of the conductor-less East Coast Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Chu received her Artist Diploma at the New England Conservatory and her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School.

Cellist Oliver Herbert is a concert artist with a rapidly growing international presence. The recipient of a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant, he is acclaimed for his natural musicianship. As a soloist, Mr. Herbert has appeared with world-renowned orchestras such as the San Francisco Symphony and Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and he appears regularly at leading chamber music festivals and venues such as the Rheingau Musik Festival, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, La Jolla SummerFest, Verbier Festival, ChamberFest Cleveland, 92NY, and Ravinia. He is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Colburn School, where he studied with Carter Brey, Pamela Frank, Clive Greensmith, and Peter Wiley. He is now a student of Frans Helmerson in the professional studies program at the Kronberg Academy, generously funded by the Nanno Lenz patronage. He plays on a Guadagnini cello that belonged to the great Italian cellist Antonio Janigro, on generous loan from the Janigro family.