Emiko Uchiyama was born in Okayama / Japan in 1983 and began her musical studies at the age of three receiving tuition on marimba and piano.

From a very early age she appeared as a soloist with many orchestras including the Tonkünstler-Orchestra Lower Austria, Osaka Philharmonic, Hong-Kong Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic, Metropolitan Police, the Sapporo Symphony and the Okayama Symphony orchestras.

She received the 1st Prize at the Junior Percussion Competition in Japan, the Keiko Abe Prize and was a finalist at the 3rd World Marimba Competition in Stuttgart in 2002. In 2005, she won 3rd Prize at the 4th World Marimba Competition Shanghai.

In 2006, she was invited by the Percussive Arts Society to perform alongside Keiko Abe, at PASIC -the society's annual convention.

Ms Uchiyama has started to study with Keiko Abe at the age of ten and she also studied with  Yoshihisa Mizuno. She graduated in 2006 at the well known Toho-Gakuen School of Music. She moved to study at Anton Bruckner Private University in Austria with Bogdan Bacanu, Leonhard Schmidinger and Josef Gumpinger where she graduated with Masters degree. She was also awarded the scholarship for the "First High Talented Scholarship" from Unisono.

In 2007, as a member of the Wave Duo, Ms Uchiyama received the 1st Prize at the Universal Marimba Competition Belgium with her duo partner, Vladimir Petrov. The duo was also awarded the Sabam Prize for the best interpretation of a set piece, the Keiko Abe Prize and received the Audience Award. In 2008 they recorded their duo album ,Tango‘ at Classic Concert Records.

She also is a member of The Wave Quartet, founded by Bogdan Bacanu in 2008, that soon performed in important concert halls in Europe and Asia, where they met enthusiastic resonance. Already in the first concerts the Quartet had followed their passion for Baroque Music and performed a Concerto for originally 2 harpsichords by Johann Sebastian Bach. Their respectful and historically informed approach enthralled public and critics. Since then baroque music embodies a focus in the Quartets repertoire.

In order to that, the Quartets debut CD ,Aurora Borealis‘ was followed in 2009 by a recording of all three Concertos for 2 harpsichords by Bach, Peter Sadlo was hereby conducting ,Salzburg Barock‘ on period instruments.
This fascinating fusion of 2 ages also received great regards.

The follow-up project ,Senza Ripieno‘ impresses with mostly unpopular, but precious baroque works, without accompaniment, and very intimate.

The quartet has given masterclasses and concerts at the Music Conservatory Vienna, the International Summer Academy Mozarteum Salzburg, the University of Brno, the JianLi Percussion Festival China, the Adams Percussion Festival, the International Marimba Competition Salzburg, the Perkulliria Percussion Festival Spain and the Semana de Musica de Ronda.
Among the highlights of the coming season there will be 3 performances in Salzburg Festival Hall with the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg under the direction of Carlos Domínguez-Nieto and concerts in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Austria and the USA.

Her touring schedule has taken her to Germany, Austria, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czech Republic, the USA, Hong-Kong, South-Korea, China and all major Japanese cities where her concerts have been met with high critical acclaim. She was guest Jury member at the International Marimba Competition in Salzburg 2009. She teached at the Marimba and Percussion Festival in Bulgaria and gives classes in Europe and Japan.

She released her Solo Marimba debut album „Emiko“ in 2009 at Classic Concert Records.

Emiko Uchiyama is an endorser of the Dutch instrument manufacturer Adams.