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Junko Ueda presents her shômyô workshop and biwa concert at Monasterio de Pedralbes in Barcelona on 24 May 2025 as part of the 3-day festival Sound and Buddhism organised by Museu de la Música de Barcelona, Oficina d'Afers Religiosos, Monasterio de Pedralbes and Casa Asia. This festival is one event of the project series called Tránsit by Museu de la Música de Barcelona. This project explores the space of interaction between communities, religion and music.

15:30 ~ 18:30: shômyô workshop
20:00: biwa epic story-telling concert
More info and tickets: ajuntament.barcelona.cat

Junko Ueda performs her Japanese epic story-telling music "Heike Monogatari" at Tomorrow Festival in Shenzhen, China on 18 May 2025 at 19:00.

On October 21 2023, Junko Ueda performs traditional biwa story-telling music with works including Dan-no-Ura, Yoshitsune, Gion-Shôja, at the Japan Festival in Akord Theater in Ostrava, Czech Republic. The festival is organised by the Czech-Japanese Cultural Center. More information see: https://japonskedny.cz/

Junko Ueda participates with her traditional biwa music in the project ‘Xenakis Birthday Party’ at the Belvedere 21 (contemporary art museum) in Vienna on 18 June 2022 as part of the Wiener Festwochen. The project is to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of the composer Iannis Xenakis. Reinhold Friedl (musician, composer and director of the ensemble Zeitkratzer) is curating a celebration on a grand scale.

More info: www.festwochen.at/en/we-bear-the-light-of-the-earth

On 12 December 2021, at 18:00: a solo performance at Atrium na Žižkově, Prague, Czech Republic. The program included:
- Dan-no-Ura, traditional biwa music
- Yoshitsune, traditional biwa music
- Tenmetsu, (composed by Czech composer Jiří Lukeš) for biwa and voice, premiere performance.
See more info at Atrium na Žižkově, Prague.

• 13-15 April, 2019, Shomyo workshop at Zen Temple of La Gendronnière, France, in the events of 'Arts et Santé'. More info click here.
• 18 & 19 May, 2019 Shomyo workshop at Ateliers d’ethnomusicologie, Geneva, Swiss. More info click here.
• 16 June, Sunday, 2019, 14:00 ~ 17:00, Shomyo workshop at Leo Kestenberg Musikschule im Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin. More info click here.
• 9-12 July, 2019, Shomyo workshop at ‘Les Suds à Arles’ le festival de Musiques du Monde, Arles, France. More info click here.

The live recording of the concert at St. Caecilien/Museum Schnuetgen, in the festival Romanischer Sommer 2018 Köln (7 June 2018) will be broadcasted on 11th July 2018 in WDR 3 Radio program Konzert at 20:04 - 22:00. More information, click here.

Shomyo Chant and Heike-Monogatari biwa story-telling at St. Caecilien/Museum Schnuetgen on 7 June 2018.

Junko Ueda performs Shomyo chant in the Festival des Musiques Sacrées du Munde,’Sacrées Journées de Strasbourg’.

• 4 February, Sunday, 2018, 10:00 at Grande Mosquée, Strasbourg
• 4 February, Sunday, 2018, 16:30 at Église protestante de Saverne

More information: www.sacreesjournees.eu

Click here to read the review of the concert ‘OULOMENEN - Le Chant des Guerriers’ at St-Pierre-aux-Nonnains, Metz, France on 22 September, 2017.

Location: Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Danse de Lyon

25 October, 2016, 14:00₁₈:00 Shomyo Buddhist Chanting workshop, in Salle d'ensemble
26 October, 2016, Concert 'Nuit de L'épopé', in Salle Varèse

• 18:00 : Film 'Kwaidan' (2nd and 3rd episode) by Masaki Kobayashi
• 19:00 : La Chanson de Roland (Département de musique ancienne); Dan-no-Ura (Junko Ueda)
• 21:00: J. F. Rebel : Les éléments, A. Campra : Tancrède, C. Monteverdi : Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (Département de musique ancienne); Yoshitsune (Junko Ueda)

Odile Edouard, Jean Tubéry, Pierre Hamon et Anne Delafosse (Département de musique ancienne), préparation musicale
Junko Ueda, chant et satsuma-biwa

Infomation: https://www.cnsmd-lyon.fr/agenda/nuit-de-lepopee

On the 20 - 21 November,2015, surrounded by full of audience, Junko Ueda presents her recitals of Epic Story of Heike at Maison des Cultures du Monde in Paris. In this tremendously difficult moment, what we need now is music. Let's play for Paris!

On the 1st November 2015, Junko Ueda gives her recital "The Epic of The Heike" at Bourgie Hall in Montreal, Canada, performing four pieces: Dan-no-Ura; Shunkan; Yoshitsune; Gion-Shôja. This concert is presented with English and French subtitling. Next day, she presents her shomyo workshop at University of Montreal.

Solo concert at Copenhagen World Music Festival in Koncert Kirken.