ARTIST PROFILES
EUGENE UGHETTI
"Off on another challenging acoustic adventure, Melbourne percussionist Eugene Ughetti is currently showing why he is one of this country's most talented artists in the field of advanced contemporary music." - The Age (30 Jan, 2008)
“Eugene Ughetti seems to live, breathe and, well, speak percussion.”
- The Age (1 June, 2005)
Eugene Ughetti is a Melbourne based percussionist, composer and artistic director of Speak Percussion. He has studied with significant artists from most continents and completed a degree with Honors in Classical Percussion at the Victorian College of the Arts. His professional experience is diverse but his particular focus is new music and hybrid-arts collaboration.
Eugene has performed throughout Europe, Asia, Canada, North America and Australia with a wide variety of artists and in many contexts. He has appeared as a soloist with both the Melbourne Symphony and Victorian College of the Arts Orchestras. In 1998 he was an ABC Young Composer and ABC Young Artist.
Eugene has instigated numerous International arts projects involving Australian chamber music, cross-arts collaboration, commissioning International artists and taking other Australian artists overseas. Eugene has undertaken professional collaborations with choreographers, animators, dancers, installation artists, actors, instrument builders, artistic director’s and has commissioned over forty new solo and ensemble works. This experience includes solo and group work in various premiere Arts Festivals, educational residencies and independent projects.
Eugene performs as a guest with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa (Japan), the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (Malaysia), the UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra (Switzerland) and the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra (Japan). He has worked under conductors Lorin Maazel, Pierre Boulez, Charles Dutoit, Peter Eötvös, James Levine, Stephan Asbury, Valery Gergiev, Neemi Järvi, Franck Ollu, Markus Stenz, Denis Cohen, Reinbert de Leeuw, Martyn Brabbins, Yuri Temirkanov and Jean Deroyer.
Eugene has collaborated extensively with the Australian arts organisation Aphids. Such work has included premiering many new works by composer and artistic director David Young and giving exclusive performances on miniature percussion instruments made by Rosemary Joy.
Eugene is co-director, with glass artist Elaine Miles, of The Glass Percussion Project. This project was launched in Melbourne in 2006, it received it's international debut in New York in early 2007 and was recently the focus of a full episode of an ABC “Artists at Work” documentary screened on national television twice in 2008.
His engagements with Australian new music ensembles include ELISION, Libra, the David Chesworth Ensemble, Astra, Synergy and Chamber Made Opera. He is a founding member of International groups Ensemble Laboratorium, Grenzenlos, the Swiss-Australian Collectables and Ensemble XII (formerly the Lucerne Festival Percussion Group). Eugene participated in the 2004-2008 Lucerne Festival's working under Pierre Boulez and Ensemble Intercontemporain in the Lucerne Festival Academy.
Eugene has lectured and hosted masterclasses in Japan, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, U.S.A, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Portugal and in various capital cities in Australia. He is currently a sessional staff member at the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne), conducts the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School Percussion Ensemble and is an academic lecturer at Monash University.
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