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55 MICHIAKI UENO He has participated in several music festivals and seminars, including the Festival Pablo Casals in Prades, Verbier Festival, International Music Festival NIPPON, Takefu International Music Festival, International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove, and Kronberg Academy. He has received masterclasses from Steven Isserlis, Frans Helmerson, Ivan Monighetti, Miklós Perényi and Jian Wang among many other great maestros. ​ As a soloist, he has performed with numerous orchestras, among them the Orchestre de laSuisseRomande,WarsawPhilharmonicOrchestra, Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Gyeonggi Philharmonic Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra and New Japan Philharmonic, under such leading conductors as Charles Dutoit and Sebastian Weigle. As a chamber musician, he has shared the platform with artists including Jean-Guihen Queyras, Daniel Sepec, José Gallardo, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi and Akiko Suwanai. ​ Michiaki has received numerous awards such as the Foundation for Youth Award (2011), the Honourable Award (2015) from the Iwatani Tokiko Foundation, and the Aoyama Music Prize (2017) as a promising rising star. He has been generously supported by the Japan Federation of Musicians, Rohm Music Foundation, Ezoe Memorial Recruit Foundation, Dr Sieghardt Rometsch Stiftung and Dr Carl Dörken Stiftung. Michiaki plays a Paolo Antonio Testore cello on loan from the Munetsugu Collection.