Pianist Reiko Uchida has performed solo and chamber music concerts throughout the United States, Japan, France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Finland, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic, in venues including Lincoln Center, the 92nd Street Y, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Kennedy Center, the White House, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. First prize winner of the Joanna Hodges Piano Competition and Zinetti Competition, she has appeared as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Santa Fe Symphony, Greenwich Symphony, and the Princeton Symphony, among others. She made her New York solo debut in 2001 at Carnegie’s Weill Hall under the auspices of the Abby Whiteside Foundation.

As a chamber musician she has performed at the Marlboro, Santa Fe, Tanglewood, and Spoleto Music Festivals; as guest artist with American Chamber Players, and the Borromeo, Talich, Daedalus, St. Lawrence, and Tokyo String Quartets; and in recital with Jennifer Koh, Thomas Meglioranza, Anne Akiko Meyers, David Shifrin, Anthony McGill, Sharon Robinson, and Jaime Laredo. Her recording with Jennifer Koh, “String Poetic” was nominated for a Grammy Award. She is a current member of the Trio Echo. She was a past member of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Two, the Laurel Trio, and Camera Lucida.

As a youngster, Reiko appeared on the Emmy Awards and twice on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. She studied at the Curtis Institute of Music, Mannes College of Music and the Juilliard School. Her teachers included Claude Frank, Leon Fleisher, Edward Aldwell, Sophia Rosoff, and Margo Garrett. She has taught at the Brevard Music Center and is currently a faculty member at Columbia University.