Ueno Michiaki

Ueno Michiaki won First Prize in the cello division at the Geneva International Music Competition as the first Japanese in 2021. He has won numerous prizes: the first ever Japanese winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians at the age of 13, and First Prize at the International Johannes Brahms Competition. These achievements in the international scenes draw much attention. Ueno has performed with numerous major orchestras in Japan and abroad, such as the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, KBS Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, and New Japan Philharmonic. He won the Nippon Steel Music Awards (Promising New Artist Prize), Beethoven Ring Award, Idemitsu Music Award, Hotel Okura Music Award and Saito Hideo Memorial Fund Award. Ueno went to Germany at the age of 19 invited by Pieter Wispelwey, and then he studied under Gary Hoffman at Queen Elisabeth College of Music, gaining the artist diploma. He plays 1730 A. Stradivarius “Feuermann” (Nippon Music Foundation), a 1758 P. A. Testore cello (Munetsugu Collection), and a F. Tourte bow (Sumino Taishi) on loan.
Ueno is a resident artist of “Shiiki presents Argerich’s Haus.”