【短信】内田光子の栄えある受賞 [音楽時評]
昨年11月のサントリーホールでのシューベルト最晩年のピアノソナタ第１９～２１番の名演についてはこのブログで報告し，最近のそれとまったく同じプログラムのNew York のCarnegie Hall での好演についての高評もお伝えしましたが，この度は，その内田光子が，イギリスでPianist Dame Mitsuko Uchida is to receive the Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) Gold Medal, one of the highest honours in classical music という記事がありましたのでご紹介します．
これで内田光子は，Alfred Brendel, Pierre Boulez, Sir Simon Rattle, Placido Domingo and Daniel Barenboimなど有名な受賞者の仲間入りをすることにおなるそうです．
なお，写真の説明の中にあるMitsuko Uchida was made a CBE in 2001 and a Dame in 2009 とあるのは，イギリスの爵位を受けたというモノで，Dame は男性のナイトに対応する高位の爵位にあたり，ディム光子内田と呼ばれる栄誉です．
35年以上イギリス在住の日本人の受賞は，たいへん喜ばしいことだと思います．63歳は未だ未だ絶頂期だと思いますから，無理をされないで今後も長く活躍されることを祈りたいと思います．
4 May 2012 Last updated at 14:42 GMT
Mitsuko Uchida was made a CBE in 2001 and a Dame in 2009
Pianist Dame Mitsuko Uchida is to receive the Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) Gold Medal, one of the highest honours in classical music.
Celebrated for her performances of Mozart and Schubert, she was described as a "peerless musician" by the RPS.
Dame Mitsuko will join modern-day gold medallists including Alfred Brendel, Pierre Boulez, Sir Simon Rattle, Placido Domingo and Daniel Barenboim.
She will be presented with the medal at the RPS Awards in London on 8 May.
The 63-year-old was born in Japan and moved to Vienna at the age of 12 with her diplomat father. She has lived in London for more than 35 years and was made a Dame in 2009.
Her previous honours include a Grammy Award in 2010 for best instrumental soloist.
The Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal was launched in 1870 to mark the centenary of Beethoven's birth and has been given to figures including Brahms, Elgar, Stravinsky, Britten and Bernstein.
