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Michiaki Ueno Michiaki Ueno's eloquent performance and charisma spellbind the audience. He has been praised for his unique yet natural musicality and superlative technique. It is unsurprising that Yo-Yo Ma hailed him as a ‘fabulous cellist’. Born in Paraguay in November 1995, Michiaki started his cello studies in Japan at the age of five. In 2001 he moved to Barcelona, where he studied with Iñaki Etxepare. 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 2015, he moved to Germany where he studied with Pieter Wispelwey at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf. Since 2021, he is an artist-in-residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium, where he studies with Gary Hoffman and Jeroen Reuling. ​ In 2007, at the age of eleven, he gave his first concerto performance at the prestigious Suntory Hall, playing the Lalo Cello Concerto. This later led to his success in becoming the first Japanese ever to win the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians, in 2009 at the age of thirteen. A year later, he won First Prize in the Romanian International Music Competition along with the Romanian Embassy Prize and the Romanian Radio Culture Prize. He then received First Prize in the International Johannes Brahms Competition of 2014. His most recent title has been the first prize in the Geneva International Music Competition in 2021 along with three special awards, including the Young Audience Prize. 54 BACH | THE SIX CELLO SUITES