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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 27th October at Comedie de Geneva, Junko Ueda participates among 30 artists in the Marathon concert by the Geneva based chamber orchestra Geneva Camerata.

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.

Concert
October 3, 2015, 20:30: Double concert 'Musiques du Japon Ancien, Chants Biwa et Koto' at MEG - Musée d'ethnographie de Genève.

Shomyo workshop
October 3, 2015, 14:00 ~ 16:00: for advanced students
October 4, 2015, 10:30 ~ 12:30: for beginners
October 4, 2015, 14:00 ~ 16:00: for advanced students
October 4, 2015, 16:30 ~ 17:15: presentation of the workshop at MEG

Concert and workshops are organized by Ateliers d'ethnomusicologie in the occasion of the exhibition at MEG 'The Buddhism of Madame Butterfly, Buddhist Japonism'. Registration and information of the workshop: 022-919.0494

On the 28th March, 2015 at 21:30, Ueda performs "Erkos", compositions by French composer Jean-Claude Eloy for biwa/voice and live-electronics at 2nd Festival Electr()cution, Brest, France.

• November 14, 2014, 18:30: Gion-Shoja Biwa Singing Workshop at Kôfuku-ji Temple, Nagasaki, Japan.
• November 15, 2014, 18:00: Duo Ueda Offermans Concert at Kôfuku-ji Temple, Nagasaki, Japan. The program includes: Tsuru-no-Sugomori; Shunkan; Heike Duo and Ingen's Dream (with shomyo Buddhist chanting of Obaku-shu monks). Ingen's Dream is their special composition, dedicated for Ingen's (Chinese founder of Obaku-shu Buddhist sect) arrival in Japan 360 years anniversary.
• December 11, 2014, 18:30 ~ 21:30: Shomyo Workshop at Ateliers d'ethnomusicologie, Geneva, Swiss.
• February 26, 2015, 18:15 ~ 19:00 beginners / 19:00 ~ 21:30 all together: Shomyo Workshop at Ateliers d'ethnomusicologie, Geneva, Swiss.
• March 28, 2015, 22:00: Festival Electr()cution, Brest, France. Ueda will perform "Erkos" and "Galaxies", compositions by French composer Jean-Claude Eloy for biwa/voice and live-electronics.

On August 7th the Duo Ueda Offermans (Junko Ueda: biwa and voice; Wil Offermans: flutes) performs a duo concert for the Academie Internationale d'Ete de Nice at the Conservatoire de Musique, Nice. They shars the stage with flutist Sophie Cherrier. (photo left to right: Junko Ueda; Wil Offermans; Sophie Cherrier; Olivier Gardon; Gerard Kurdjian).

Two videos are now available on YouTube of the performance of Duo Ueda Offermans at Màntica Festival in Cesena, Italy, recorded on 26th October 2013 in the Teatro Comandini. One is from "Inner Voices" (voice and Thumpy flute) and another is from their classics "How to Survive in Paradise II" (voice and flutes / live-electronics).

Junko Ueda performs her solo recital at RASA, Utrecht, Holland in the festival of RASAMania! on 26th September 2013. The program includes:

1. Taiyô (Tendai-shomyo)
2. Dan-no-Ura (traditional biwa music)
3. Yoshitsune (traditional biwa music)
4. Gion-Shôja.(traditional biwa music)

On August 24th the Duo Ueda Offermans present a their acoustic duo concert at Chapelle Notre Dame de Riquer, Catllar near Prades (France). The event is part of the 8ème Festival Les Troubadours Chantent l'Art Roman en Languedoc-Roussillon. The duo - by Junko Ueda and Wil Offermans on flutes - performes a program of their works as well as some traditional Japanese pieces, including Heike Monogatari, Genji Monogatari and Tsuru-no-Sugomori. The origin of the Chapelle Notre Dame de Riquer dates back more than 1000 years.

• August 24 2013, 21:00: Duo Ueda Offermans at Chapelle Notre. Dame de Riquer, Catllar, France. (8ème Festival Les troubadours chantent l'art roman en Languedoc-Roussillon, France)
• September 26 2013. 20:30: Solo recital at Rasa, Utrecht, Holland, in the Festival RASAMania!
• October 26 2013: Duo Ueda Offermans at Màntica Festival, Cesena, Italy
• October 27 2013: Shomyo Workshop at Màntica Festival, Cesena, Italy

Duo Ueda Offermans present a their acoustic duo concert at Iglesia de St Julien, Olargues on 14th June 2013 and Iglesia St Roch, Maury (France). The event is part of the 8ème Festival Les Troubadours Chantent l'Art Roman en Languedoc-Roussillon. The duo - by Junko Ueda (voice / biwa) and Wil Offermans on flutes - performs a program of their works as well as some traditional Japanese pieces, including Heike Monogatari, Genji Monogatari and Tsuru-no-Sugomori.