Mitsuko Uchida wins the 2027 Léonie Sonning Music Prize
Denmark's award of one million kroner goes to the Japanese-British pianist, who will give a prize recital in Copenhagen in May 2027.
The Japanese-British pianist Mitsuko Uchida has been named the winner of the 2027 Léonie Sonning Music Prize. The Léonie Sonning Music Foundation in Denmark announced the award on 1 October 2026. The prize carries one million Danish kroner.
Uchida will give a prize recital at DR Koncerthuset in Copenhagen on 30 May 2027, with music by Haydn, Schoenberg, Mozart and Schubert. It will be her first performance in Denmark since 2006, when she played at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. The following day she will take part in an event with piano students from Denmark’s three conservatoires.
Uchida moved to Vienna at the age of 12 and studied there. Her international breakthrough came in 1982, when she performed Mozart’s piano sonatas in London and Tokyo. She is known above all for her playing of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and Schoenberg.
Source: Léonie Sonning Music Foundation, Bachtrack
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