Ken Ueno

Ken Ueno (born January 11, 1970, in Bronxville, New York) is an American composer. Career Ueno pursued initial studies in music at the United States Military Academy in West Point, NY, but soon transferred to Berklee College of Music, where he earned a B.M. in Film Scoring/Composition Summa Cum Laude (1992); his graduate studies at Boston University and Yale School of Music earned him master’s degrees; he later completed a doctorate at Harvard University. Ueno has taught at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and now teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served as co-director of Minimum Security Composers Collective, and has earned the distinction of having earned the American Academy prizes for both the Berlin and Rome fellowships, and has worked with premier ensembles internationally to considerable critical acclaim. Works Ken Ueno has composed for modern orchestra, jazz ‘big band’, chamber ensembles including woodwind quintet, choreographed dance pieces, and in a variety of other genres. As a performer, Ueno has performed at the Flea, New York City, collaborated with violist Kim Kashkashian and percussionist Robyn Schulkowsky on the works Hypnomelodiam