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Junko Ueda
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Junko Ueda (Japanese: 上田純子; born in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese singer and satsuma-biwa player, presenting Japanese traditional biwa music (story-telling) and shômyô Buddhist chanting. Also, she is specialized to perform the pieces of Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu (武満徹). Ueda studied satsuma-biwa with the famous Kinshi Tsuruta and Buddhist shômyô-chanting with Kôshin Ebihara. She studied piano and composition (under a.o. Joji Yuasa) at the Tokyo College of Music. Since 1988, Ueda has based in Europe (Amsterdam, Holland and Granada, Spain) and has been giving biwa/voice solo conce… read more
