The Rome Prize and the Berlin Prize winner Ken Ueno is a composer, vocalist and sound artist who is currently a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Jerry and Evelyn Hemmings Chambers Distinguished Professor Chair in Music. He holds a PhD from Harvard University. A portrait concert of Ken's was featured on MaerzMusik in Berlin in 2011. In 2014, Frances-Mairie Uitti and BMOP premiered his concerto for two-bow cello and orchestra, and Guerilla Opera premiered a run of his chamber opera, Gallo, to critical acclaim. He has performed as a soloist in his vocal concerto with BMOP, the Warsaw Philharmonic, the Lithuanian National Symphony, the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, and with orchestras in North Carolina, Pittsburgh, and California. A monograph CD of three orchestral concertos was released on the Bmop/sound label. His bio appears in The Grove Dictionary of American Music.