Kay Ueyama

Kay Ueyama

Born in London, Kay Ueyama grew up in Tokyo. Kay earned prizes at the Paola Bernardi Harpsichord competition in Italy in 2003 and in the Yamanashi Early Music competition in Japan in 2005. Kay is currently a part-time teacher in harpsichord at the Kyoto city of art university and Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts. She is active as both a soloist and a chamber musician in Europe, the United States, and Japan. She was selected to perform as a soloist with Ensemble Prometheus21 and the Orchestra Les Siècles. Her performances have been broadcast on Dutch AVRO classic radio channel, Mezzo TV, and France musique. She has been invited to a number of major music venus, including Mozart festival at the UNESCO World Heritage Centre Würzburg residence (Germany), Salle Pleyel (France), The Royal Chapel at the Château de Versailles (France), and at the Concertgebouw (Holland). In 2002, Kay Ueyama first performed the Goldberg Variations in Boston. In 2011, she recorded sonatas for cello of J.P.Duport with Raphael Pidoux on Integral Classic. She has also recorded her first solo album Bach:Goldberg Variations which was selected as "Diapason Decouverte" in France,"Gold prize" by Record Geijyutsu (Art of Disque) and the ASAHI Newspaper. Kay studied piano at the Toho School of Music, Performance Diploma in piano at the Longy School of Music (U.S), harpsichord at the Amsterdam Conservatory (Holland), Boulogne Conservatoire (France), and earned Masters Degrees from both The Longy School of Music (U.S) in harpsichord and The Royal Conservatory of Brussels (Belgium) in pianoforte. Kay has studied piano under Yoriko Kojima,Victor Rosenbaum,Dang Thai Son, fortepiano under Piet Kuijken and Boyan Vodenitcharov and harpsichord under Peter Sykes, Menno van Delft, Christophe Rousset and Huguette Dreyfus.