He has received masterclasses from Steven Isserlis, Frans Helmerson, Ivan Monighetti, Miklós Perényi, and Jian Wang among many other great maestros. His most recent title was the first prize in the Geneva International Music Competition (2021) along with three special awards, including the Young Audience Prize. In 2014, he won the first prize in the International Johannes Brahms Competition. A year later, he won the first prize in the Romanian International Music Competition along with the Romanian Embassy Prize and the Romanian Radio Culture Prize. This later led to his success in becoming the first Japanese to win the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians held in 2009 at the age of thirteen. In 2007, at the age of eleven, he gave his first concerto performance at the prestigious Suntory Hall, playing the Lalo Cello Concerto. In 2021, he became an artist-in-residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium, where he studies with Gary Hoffman and Jeroen Reuling. In 2015, he moved to Germany, where he studied with Pieter Wispelwey at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf. After returning to Japan in 2004, he studied at the Toho Gakuen College Music Department, Soloist Diploma Course with a full scholarship under the tutelage of Hakuro Mohri. In 2001 he moved to Barcelona, Spain, where he studied with Iñaki Etxepare. It is unsurprising that Yo-Yo Ma hailed him as a „fabulous cellist“.īorn in Paraguay in November 1995, Michiaki started his cello study at the age of five in Japan. He has been praised for his unique yet natural musicality and superlative technique. Ueno's eloquent performance and charisma spellbind the audience. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Cello Suite No.
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