Junko Ueda

Biography

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.