Ken Ueno

CURRICULUM VITAE

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Education:

• Harvard University, '99 - '05, Ph.D.
• Yale School of Music, '97 - '99, M.M.A.
• Boston University, '95 - '97, M.M. (Pi Kappa Lambda)
• Berklee College of Music, '91 - '94, B.M. in Film Scoring/Composition (Summa Cum Laude)
• United States Military Academy (West Point), '87 - '88

Principal Teachers:

• Harvard University: Sir Harrison Birtwistle, '04; Hans Tutschku, '04; Mario Davidovsky, '00 - '01; Bernard Rands, '99 - '00, '02- '03
• Yale School of Music: Ned Rorem, '99; Martin Bresnick, '98; Evan Ziporyn, '98; Bun-Ching Lam, '97
• Aspen Music Festival: Bernard Rands, '97, '98; John Harbison, '97,'98
• Boston University: Lukas Foss, '95 - '96; Tison Street, '96 - '97
• Berklee College of Music: John Bavicchi, '93 - '94; Herb Pomeroy, '94 - '95

Awards/grants/fellowships:

• Athens International Sci-Fi Fantasy Short Film Festival, '08
•          digital video work, Sabinium, selected for performance.
• Spark Festival, '08
•          digital video work, Sabinium, selected for performance.
• National Endowment for the Arts, '07
•          to support cd recording of orchestral music with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project
• Faculty Travel Grant, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, ’06,
•         for appearance and performance at Nuovi Spazi Musica festival, American Academy in Rome.
• 2006-2007 Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize Fellowship
• Meet The Composer/South Grant, residence at the University of Southern Mississippi, ‘07
• Aaron Copland Fund for Music Recording , ’06
•          to support cd recording of orchestral music with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project
• Second Prize, de Ereprijs Composition Competition Commission, ’06
•          new work for the National Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands (NJO).
• Fromm Music Foundation Commission, '05 for shakuhachi & biwa duo concerto for the Boston Modern Orchestra Project.
• Faculty Travel Grant, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, '04, for appearance and performance at NWEAMO festival.
• Meet The Composer, University of Michigan, Duderstadt Center (Ann Arbor, MI), '04
•          for appearance and performance of multimedia show.
• Aaron Copland Award, '04, residency at Copland House
• John Green Composition Prize (Harvard), '04, for excellence in composition, residency at Fondazione William Walton (Ischia, Italy)
• Meet The Composer, appearance with the Radius Ensemble (Cambridge, MA), '04
• Fromm Music Foundation commission, '03, for a new work for the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra
• First Prize, "Luigi Russolo" electro-acoustic music competition, for Zansetsu, '03
• Paine Travel Grant (Harvard), summer '03, for research at IRCAM
• Francis Boott Prize (Harvard), for Shiroi Ishi, '03
• Meet The Composer, appearance with Magalhaes Music (Brooklyn, NY), '03
• Sonic Circuits X, '03
• GSC - Term-time Research Fellowship (Harvard), fall '02
• Paine Travel Grant (Harvard), summer '02
• Regional winner (Region I) SCI/ASCAP, '02
• Wesley Weyman Fund travel grant , '01
• GSC Conference Grant (Harvard), '01
• Graduate Society Summer Fellowship (Harvard), '01
• Adelbert W. Sprague Prize (Harvard), for NoHowOn, '01
• Schafer Fellowship (Harvard), '01
• Paine Travel Grant (Harvard), for study in Belgium, '00
• Adelbert W. Sprague Prize (Harvard), for Saturation and Purge, '00
• Belgian-American Foundation Grant for study in Belgium, '99
• Rena Greenwald Prize (Yale), '99
• Whitaker Reading Session with the American Composers Orchestra, '99
• Virgil Thomson Scholarship (Yale), '98
• Honorable Mention ASCAP Morton Gould Competition, '98
• Regional winner (Region I) SCI/ASCAP, '97
• Boston University: Pi Kappa Lambda, '97
• Berklee College of Music: Summa Cum Laude, Composition Achievement Award

Commissions:

Kim Kashkashian; Netherlands Youth Orchestra; Boston Modern Orchestra Project (supported by Fromm Foundation); Takefu Music Festival (for a work for Mayumi Miyata and Teodoro Anzellotti); Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra (supported by Fromm Foundation);  Relâche Ensemble (in cooperation with WHYY and the Rosenbach Museum); the Prism Quartet; Radius Ensemble (funded in part by a grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts and Meet the Composer, Inc., with additional support from ASCAP, the Virgil Thomson Fund, and from the six New England state arts agencies and the National Endowment for the Arts); Dogs of Desire; eighth blackbird; Hopkins Center (Dartmouth College) for Non-Sequitur; CrossSound Music Festival; Odd Appetite; So Percussion Group; the Yesaroun’ Duo; Elm City Ensemble; Skyline Brass Quartet; Brian Sacawa; Duo X; Gemini Duo; Kamellion; Paul Fadoul; Duo Chiaroscuro; Music for Funky Music Mixers - Bandai America Inc.; Mr. John Corley and M.I.T. Brass Band

Selected Composition Performances:

         *Please see separate attached sheets

Selected Performances as Vocalist:

         *Please see separate attached sheets

Teaching:

• Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, fall ’04-present
  • Electronic Muisc:
  • Electronic Studio Tech I (Pro Tools, Peak, Max/Msp, AudioSculpt)
  • Electronic Composition II (Pro Tools, Peak, Max/Msp, AudioSculpt)
  • Synthesizer Program Technology
  • Recording Techniques
  • Graduate-level Independent Study: Audio Installation
  • Laptop Ensemble
  • Undergraduate  Independent Study: Recording Techniques
  • Hip-Hop/Techno songwriting and productions, Composition
  • Facutly Advisor to the Hip-Hop Union, the Open Mic Club
  • Composition: weekly seminars and private lessons.
  • Seminar in Music Theory – Experimental Music
  • Music History: Seminar on Music History – Baroque Music
  • Introduction to Music
• Director, electronic music studios, Umass Dartmouth, fall ’04
• Built and maintaining new studio
• Assistant Professor, Berklee College of Music, spring ‘04
• 3 classes of Traditional Harmony I, 2 classes of Counterpoint  I
• Teaching Assistant, Harvard University, fall ’03 – spring  ‘04
• Music167ar, undergraduate  electro-acoustic composition.  Solely responsible for teaching software applications used in the class (Max/Msp, Pro Tools, Peak, AudioSculpt), as well as advising compositional projects and analysis of classic repertoire of electronic music.
• Teaching Assistant, Harvard University, fall ’03 – spring  ‘03
• Music  5, undergraduate  intermediate composition.  Responsible for advising on compositional projects written for ensembles of varying instrumentation.   Analysis of 20^th century music.
• Teaching Assistant, Yale University, spring ‘99
• Composition for non-majors (private lessons)
• Teaching Assistant, Yale University, spring ‘99
• Undergraduate Ear Training
• Teaching Assistant, Yale University, spring ‘98
• Introduction to Music
• Pre-Concert lecturer, the Newton Symphony, January ’00
• Music Instructor , Abstraction Made Elementary, ‘00
• Created music program for a weekly after-school art program for 5th graders at the Curley School, Jamaica Plain, MA.
• Music Instructor, Watson House,  ‘96-’97
• Created Introduction to Music program at a halfway house for court-involved teens.

Residencies:

• Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival (BEAF), featured guest, '08
• 12^th International Young Composers Meeting in Apeldoorn– organized by the Orchestra de Ereprijs and the Gaudeamus Foundation
• NWEAMO: 6th Annual International Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music, guest artist/performer, ‘04
• Composer-in-Residence, Radius Ensemble, ‘03-’04 season
• IRCAM, month-long summer course  ’03
• Centre Acanthes, fellow, ’02, ‘03
• Music at the Anthology 2002 Spring Festival, featured artist, ‘02
• Norfolk Festival of Music, guest artist/lecturer.  ’02
• IX Festival Internacional de Musica Electroacustica, guest artist. Havana, Cuba, ‘02
• Centro Musica, Modena, Italy, guest artist. Jan. 24-27, 2002
• Revillagigedo Staccato, CrossSound Festival, guest artist. Alaska , ‘01
• Ictus International Composition Seminar fellow, ’01
• Liege Conservatoire, Belgian-American Education Foundation Fellow, ‘00
• Stockhausen-Kurse, Kürten, ’00 - Des Moines, Iowa   w/Skyline Brass composer-in-residence - funded by CMA, ‘00
• The Composers Conference  at Wellesley, fellow, ‘99
• Aspen Music Festival, advanced masterclass fellow, ‘97, ‘98
• Atlantic Center for the Arts associate artist, ‘98
• June in Buffalo fellow, ’98

Invited Lectures/seminars:

• Harvard University lecture
• Paris Conservatory – lecture/recital on my electro-acoustic music with saxophone, for Claude Delangle’s studio
• Norfolk Festival of Music – guest composer, lecture/concert
• University of Southern Mississippi – composer-in-residence Intégrales New Music Festival 2007, portrait concert, performance, lecture on my music, masterclasses
• Tufts University - lecture on my music
• University of Miami – 3 lectures on my music, radio interview (WVUM), experimental improvisation seminar/coachings/performed concert of pieces written by students
• Northwestern University- lecture/recital on influence of Asian tradition on my music
• Wellesley College – guest composer:  lecture/portrait concert
• UC Davis – William Valente Memorial Lecture: lecture on my music
• UMass Amherst – lecture on my music
• Franklin Pierce College – lecture/demonstration on overtone singing
• Northwest Vista College(San Antonio, TX) – composer –in-residence for Fall Music Festival, performance and lecture on my music
• Longy Schoolof Music – lecture on my music
• UMass Dartmouth – lecture/recital on my music
• UC Riverside – lecture/recital on my music
• California State University, Stanislaus – lecture/recital on my electro-acoustic music
• California State University, Fresno – lecture/recital on my electro-acoustic music
• M.I.T. – lecture
• Berklee College of Music (2) – lecture on my music
• New England Conservatory- lecture
• Juilliard School- lecture
• Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble/Community Music Center of Boston – Workshop leader and curator for the Electronic Music Exchange as part of the “Salute to Young Composers” Festival, Boston, MA (2 – ’04, ’05
• Congress of the Americas , UDLA, Puebla, Mexico- lecture
• New Rochelle High School – lecture/demonstration on my music and Max/Ms
• Ballard Junior High/High School, Iowa – guest composer:  lecture

Arts Administration:

• Co-founder/co-director, Minimum Security Composers Collective, ’98-present.
  • MSCC is a non-profit organization that collaborates with established ensembles and soloists to present concerts of living composers’ music, with a total of seventy-two works so far presented. Minimum Security concerts have been funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music America, Meet the Composer, Aaron Copland Fund, Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music, North River Music, and Yale School of Music
• Member, Composers  in Red Sneakers, ’05-present
• Director, Harvard Group for New Music,  ‘00 – ‘02
• Responsibilities included: programming and producing 5-6 concerts/yr., managing budget of 30,000+, PR/advertising, liaison between composers and visiting ensembles (Hilliard Ensemble, Bang on a Can All-Stars)
• Founder, Harvard Composer’s Colloquium series, ’00-’02
• Established weekly seminars attended by graduate students, faculty, and guest composers.  Successfully lobbied administration for yearly budget of $2,000.
• Collaborated with Japan Society and the Reischauer Institute to invite composer Jo Kondo to lecture at Harvard.
• Outside adjudicator/panelist, Berkelee College of Music, Newbury Comics Faculty Fellowship, '08
• Adjudicator, Composers in Red Sneakers Student Composition Competition, '06
• Adjudicator, SCI/ASCAP Student Composition Commission Competition, '06
• Adjudicator, Willow Flute Ensemble Composition Competition, '06
• Host/producer “The Modern Music Show w/DJ Moderne,”  ‘99-present
• A weekly public-access cable televison show in Cambridge, MA devoted to introducing new music and new music composers and performers to the public at large. Guests have included Mario Davidovsky, Bernard Rands, John Harbison, Yehudi Wyner, Lee Hyla, David Rakowski, Michael Gandolfi, Osvaldo Golijov, Bruce MacCombie, Martin Brody, Evan Ziporyn, Barry Conyngham, Beth Wiemann, Scott Wheeler and David Horne
• “Strictly Ballroom” electro-acoustic music series at CCRMA, Stanford University, ‘01
• Curated concert of music from Harvard and Brandeis Universities

Articles and publications:

• John Adams Interview in The John Adams Reader, published by Amadeus Press, LLC, Thomas May, editor, ISBN: 1574671324.
• Birtwistle’s Punch and Judy: Continuities and Change in the Four ‘Travel Music’ Sections Thesis paper for MMA, Yale niversity
• “Historical Documents by Latin American Composers”  in Border Crossings: Latin American Music in New Contexts, to be published by University   of California Press
• “Interviews with living Latin American Composers”  in Border Crossings: Latin  American Music in New Contexts, to be published by   of California Press

Software proficiency:

Max/Msp; Pro Tools; Peak, Digital Performer; Audio Desk; Audio Sculpt; Diphone; Open Music; Reason; Finale. 

Film scores:

• Wenn Engel singen. Das Hilliard Ensemble, by Gösta Courkamp, 2002
• Documentary on the Hilliard Ensemble for German TV station ZDF/Arte, featuring Ueno’s Shiroi Ishi
• Dear Pam, by John  Scott, 2002
  • Awards and Distinctions:
  • Audience Choice Award Best Documentary, The Denver Underground Film Festival, 2003.
  • Jury Award Winner, The New York Film and Video Expo, 2003.
  • Juror's Citation, The Iowa City International Documentary Festival, 2004.
  • Third Prize in the Independent Documentary Category, The Canadian Annual Independent   Film and Video Festival, 2003.
  • Best of Festival Screening, Boston Cyber Arts Festival, 2003.
  • Nominated for Canada's Golden Sheaf Award for Best Documentary: Short Subject, at the Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival, 2004.
• Experience, by Mari Kimura, 2001
• Art@night, the Video, by John Scott, 2000
• Night Shooting, by Soo Hugh, 1999

Other Experiences:

• Ski Patrol, West Point , USMA, ‘87-88
• Advanced PADI, scuba diving license