As the winner of the 75th Geneva International Music Competition 2021 and Bonn’s Beethoven Ring Award 2024, Michiaki Ueno has proven to be one of the most promising artists on the classical music scene.
Born in Paraguay in 1995, Michiaki started his cello studies at the age of five. At the age of eleven, he gave his first concerto performance in Tokyo. This later led to his success in becoming the first ever Japanese winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians in 2009. A year later, he won first prize in the Romanian International Music Competition. He won first prize in the International Johannes Brahms Competition in 2014.
As a soloist, Ueno has performed with leading orchestras such as the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Warsaw Filharmonia Narodowa, KBS Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, under renowned conductors including Charles Dutoit and Jonathan Nott. He has shared the stage in chamber music performances with acclaimed artists such as Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky, Augustin Dumay, and José Gallardo.
Michiaki has received musical education from the late Shoichi Baba, Iñaki Etxepare, and Hakuro Mohri. He also studied with Pieter Wispelwey in Düsseldorf and Gary Hoffman in Belgium.
Michiaki performs on a 1730 “Feuermann” Stradivarius, on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation, using a F. Tourte bow on loan from the Sumino Hiroshi Collection.
