[2][3] He has served as co-director of Minimum Security Composers Collective,[4] and has earned the rare distinction of having earned the highly selective American Academy prizes for both the Berlin and Rome fellowships, and has worked with premier ensembles internationally to considerable critical acclaim.
[5][6][7] Ken Ueno has composed for modern orchestra, jazz 'big band', chamber ensembles including woodwind quintet, choreographed dance pieces, and in a variety of other genres.
Kaze-no-Oka, for example, reflects in part the structure of the Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki's like-named project[dead link].
[14] His Talus is, in a manner of speaking, a biography of a traumatic event in the life of its soloist, violist Wendy Richman, who shattered her ankle in a ten-foot fall.
[15] He is keenly interested in the process of exploring unique, in some sense irreproducible, sonic events linked to the performers for which his music is written.