A recipient of the Rome Prize and the Berlin Prize, Ken Ueno, is a composer/vocalist/sound artist who is currently a Professor at UC Berkeley, where he holds the Jerry and Evelyn Hemmings Chambers Distinguished Professor Chair in Music. Ensembles and performers who have played Ken’s music include Kim Kashkashian and Robyn Schulkowsky, Mayumi Miyata, Teodoro Anzellotti, Aki Takahashi, Wendy Richman, Greg Oakes, BMOP, Alarm Will Sound, Steve Schick and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Nieuw Ensemble, and Frances-Marie Uitti. His music has been performed at such venues as Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MusikTriennale Köln Festival, the Muziekgebouw, Ars Musica, Warsaw Autumn, Other Minds, the Hopkins Center, Spoleto USA, Steim, and at the Norfolk Music Festival. Ken’s piece for the Hilliard Ensemble, Shiroi Ishi, was featured in their repertoire for over ten years, with performances at such venues as Queen Elizabeth Hall in England, the Vienna Konzerthaus, and was aired on Italian national radio, RAI 3. Another work, Pharmakon, was performed dozens of times nationally by Eighth Blackbird during their 2001-2003 seasons. A portrait concert of Ken’s was featured on MaerzMusik in Berlin in 2011. In 2012, he was a featured artist on Other Minds 17. In 2014, Frances-Mairie Uitti and the Boston Modern Orchestra premiered his concerto for two-bow cello and orchestra, and Guerilla Opera premiered a run of his chamber opera, Gallo, to critical acclaim. He has performed as soloist in his vocal concerto with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project in New York and Boston, the Warsaw Philharmonic, the Lithuanian National Symphony, the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, and with orchestras in North Carolina, Pittsburgh, and California. Ken holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University. A monograph CD of three orchestral concertos was released on the Bmop/sound label. His bio appears in The Grove Dictionary of American Music.

Dedicated to enriching the musical life of Asia and beyond, The Hong Kong Brass Quintet gave its inaugural concert at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in the spring of 2013. The group is made up of all Principal Brass Players of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.

From jazz, Dixieland, Broadway, 20th century classics to the most demanding contemporary standards of the brass quintet repertoire the HKBQ play all styles of music.

Members of the HKBQ have performed with many of the world’s finest ensembles including the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestras, and Boston and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras.

Individually they have held positions with the Saint Louis, Colorado, and Baltimore Symphonies, and Malaysia and Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestras.

All members are active as international soloists and educators, frequently giving recitals and master classes, and soloing with orchestras, wind ensembles, brass bands, and chamber groups.

Studied Music Composition, Orchestration, and Musique Spectrale with Dr. Francois Rose and  Composition, MAX/MSP, and Analog Modular Synthesis (w/ Todd Barton &) with Dr. Robert Coburn at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music.

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