Carnegie Hall

Mark Padmore has established an international career in opera, concert, and recital. His appearances as the Evangelist in J. S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and St. John Passion with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle, staged by Peter Sellars, attracted worldwide acclaim.

A highlight of Mr. Padmore’s 2021–2022 season is a residency at London’s renowned Wigmore Hall, where he celebrates his relationship with pianists Till Fellner, Imogen Cooper, Mitsuko Uchida, and Paul Lewis. Elsewhere, he gives recitals with Simon Lepper and Kristian Bezuidenhout, and undertakes a major US tour with Mitsuko Uchida. This season, Mr. Padmore also appears in a staged performance of Britten’s War Requiem at the Liceu in Barcelona and directs performances of the St. John Passion with the Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment.

Mr. Padmore’s performance in a new production of Britten’s Death in Venice at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, was highly praised. Other notable operatic appearances have included leading roles in Harrison Birtwistle’s The Corridor and The Cure at the Aldeburgh Festival, Captain Vere in Britten’s Billy Budd at the Glyndebourne Festival, and the world premiere of Tansy Davies’s Cave with the London Sinfonietta. Mr. Padmore was artist-in-residence with the Berliner Philharmoniker for the 2017–2018 season, and held a similar position with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2016–2017. 

Mr. Padmore was voted Musical America’s Vocalist of the Year in 2016, and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Kent in 2014. He was appointed a Commander of the British Empire in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Mr. Padmore is artistic director of the St. Endellion Summer Music Festival.

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. 

Ms. Uchida has enjoyed close relationships over many years with the world’s most renowned orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, and, in the US, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and The Cleveland Orchestra, with whom she recently celebrated her 100th performance at Severance Hall. She has worked closely with conductors who 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 whom 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 Mozartwoche and Salzburg Festival. 

Ms. Uchida records exclusively for Decca; her award-winning discography includes the complete Mozart and Schubert piano sonatas. She is the recipient of two Grammy Awards for Mozart’s concertos with The Cleveland Orchestra and an album of lieder with Dorothea Röschmann. Her recording of Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto with Pierre Boulez and The Cleveland Orchestra won the Gramophone Award for Best Concerto. 

Ms. Uchida is a founding member of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust and director of the Marlboro Music Festival. She has received the Golden Mozart Medal from the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation 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 Medal, and holds honorary degrees from Oxford and Cambridge universities. In 2009, she was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire.