Tokyo University of the Arts
Masato Uchida was born in Tokyo, Japan. He studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts under Tomojirō Ikenouchi, Akio Yashiro and Akira Miyoshi and continued his studies from 1965 at the Conservatoire de Paris under André Jolivet, Henri Dutilleux and Simone Plé-Caussade. In 1968 Masato Uchida returned to the Tokyo University of the Arts and graduated in 1971. During his last study years he founded the composer group “whitecap” (jap. "白波") together with Shigeaki Saegusa, Shin-ichiro Ikebe and Norio Fukushi.