上田晴子

Following studies at Tokyo University of the Arts High School, Haruko Ueda went on to complete both undergraduate and graduate studies in the same university, after which she moved to France on a Rotary Scholarship, eventually graduating from the Conservatoire européen de Paris. She was a prize winner in the 1986 Long Thibaud Competition, and in 1995 won the prize for the best accompanist at the Japan International Violin Competition. She is active as a soloist and chamber music player in Japan and in Europe. Artists she has collaborated with include violinists Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Pavel Vernikov, Augustin Dumay, Olivier Charlier, Mie Kobayashi, Eiichi Chijiiwa, Svetlin Roussev and Natsumi Tamai, violists Bruno Pasquier and Heiichiro Ohyama, cellists Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi and Tatsuki Sasanuma, the clarinetist Michel Arrignon et al. The following recordings have been released on the ALM Records label: “L’art de Michel Arrignon”, “Strauss & Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas” with Kantorow (awarded Recommendation by the Record Geijutsu magazine), and the following disks with Kantorow, all of which were awarded Special Selection by the magazine: “Dohnanyi & Enesco: Violin Sonatas”, “Enesco & Busoni: Violin Works”, and “Beethoven: Complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano, Vol.1, Vol.2, Vol.3”, and “Melodies” with Ludovit Kanta on the Avex label. On French labels she has released a disk “Mister Paganini” with Laurent Korcia, “Brahms: Violin Sonatas” with Sunao Goko, “Sonates parisiennes à l'orée du XXe siècle” with Kantorow, and a collection of works by Alfredo D'Ambrosio. In 2019 she was awarded the Himeji City Art and Culture Prize, and in 2020 her book “Ueda Haruko Live Lesson” was published by Ongaku-no-Tomo. At present she is an associate professor of piano and professor of chamber music at the Paris Conservatory. [as of August 2025]