Shiniti Ueno
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Shiniti Ueno started studying marimba and piano at age three. He graduated from Kunitachi College of Music Senior High School and Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo. He continued his percussion studies at the Strasbourg NationaI Conservatory in France with Jean Batigne. He also studied with Sylvio Gualda, Jean-Pierre Drouet, and Christoph Caskel. Ueno served as percussionist in the Orchestre PhiIharmonique de Strasbourg from 1976 to 1978 and as principal percussionist and timpanist of the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse from 1978 to 1984. With this orchestra, he was soloist on Andre Jolivet’s Concerto pour Percussion et Orchestra and Paul Creston’s Concertino for Marimba and Orchestra. In 1986 he performed Phu-Dong by N. T. Dao with the Brass Consort ‘86. In ApriI 1996, Ueno gave the Japanese premiere of Concertino for Marimba by Niel de Ponte with the Roots Wind Ensemble as well as the Japanese premiere of William Kraft’s Concerto for Timpani and Orchestra with the Dresner PhiIharmonie in 1997. Ueno is active as a soloist and is featured in recitals and in performances on Japan NHK Radio and France Musique. His interest in instructing and supporting young music students led him to organize The International Percussion Music Exchange Week in 1984, sponsored by French Ministry of Cultural Affairs. He was also invited to work with the Saint-Céré Music Festival and French International Percussion Academy as a clinician. Ueno also has served as an adjudicator for such competitions as the 1999 International Vibraphone Competition in France. Currently living in Tokyo, Ueno is on the faculty of Kunitachi College of Music.

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