Ken Ueno

Ken Ueno (born January 11, 1970 in Bronxville) is an American composer.

Biography

He studied at the United States Military Academy. He graduated from Berklee College of Music with a B.M. in Film Scoring/Composition Summa Cum Laude, from Boston University with a M.M., from Yale School of Music with a M.M.A., and from Harvard University with a Ph.D.

He taught at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. He is co-director of Minimum Security Composers Collective.

Works

He has composed orchestral works, for jazz big band and woodwind quintet, and two dance pieces for the Boston Conservatory. He performed at the Flea, New York City. Ueno is a recipient of the 2010/2011 Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin.

Ueno has collaborated with violist Kim Kashkashian and percussionist Robyn Schulkowsky on the works Hypnomelodiamachia for viola, percussion, and electronics (2007), and Two Hands, a Kashkashian commission, for viola and percussion (2009). A monograph compact disc of three works for soloist(s) and orchestra, Talus for viola and orchestra, On a Sufficient Condition for the Existence of Most Specific Hypothesis for solo throat-singer and orchestra, and Kaze-no-Oka for biwa, shakuhachi, and orchestra, was released by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project in 2010. Ueno has also written for such ensembles as the So Percussion Group, Bang on a Can All-Stars, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and eighth blackbird.