Dr. Ksenija Komljenović (Belgrade, Serbia) obtained the Master of Music degree in Percussion Performance from Illinois State University in 2014, followed by the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Miami in 2017, thus becoming the first woman from Serbia with a doctorate in the field. Ksenija's research focused on the position and perception of female percussionists in the Western World. Ksenija is a recipient of the American Association of University Women International Scholarship, as well as a two-time winner of the Philanthropic Educational Organization’s International Peace Scholarship. She was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student Award in 2018 by the Frost School of Music.

 

Ueno’s music has been performed at prestigious venues around the world including Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MusikTriennale Köln Festival, Ars Musica, Warsaw Autumn, the GAIDA festival, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, the Muziekgebouw, the Hopkins Center, Spoleto USA, and Steim.  He has been the featured guest composer at the Takefu International Music Festival, the Norfolk Music Festival, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, the Pacific Rim Festival, the Intégrales New Music Festival, and the MANCA Festival.

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As a vocalist, Ueno is known for inventing extended techniques and has performed as soloist in his vocal concerto with orchestras in Boston, New York, Warsaw, Vilnius, Bangkok, Sacramento, Stony Brook, Pittsburgh, and North Carolina.

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As a sound artist, his installations have been commissioned and exhibited by museums and galleries in Beijing, Guangzhou, Taipei, Mexico City, Art Basel, Los Angeles, and Hong Kong. In 2020, he created evening-long installation performances for the Osage Gallery, Tai Kwun, and at the FreeSpace. One of his largest projects, Daedalus Drones, an installation (a fence-labyrinth housing a swarm of flying drones choreographed for performance) installed at the Asia Society of Hong Kong was featured on the New Vision Arts Festival in 2021.

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Ueno currently serves as a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. As an author, Ueno’s writings have been published by the Oxford Handbook, TDR, the New York Times, Palgrave Macmillan, and Wiley & Sons. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University and an M.M.A. from the Yale School of Music, and his bio appears in The Grove Dictionary of American Music.