Yudai Ueda

Guest Conductor

Yudai Ueda is the music director of the LendAnEar Ensemble and assistant conductor for the Tucson Repertory Orchestra. Previously, Ueda directed the University of Arizona Philharmonic Orchestra and assisted the Symphony Orchestra and Opera as the Nelson Riddle Graduate Assistant. Ueda has also served on the faculty at the University of Arizona for six years, teaching band, conducting, and music education classes.

As a strong advocate for music education, he organized outreach events and conducting workshops for students and teachers. Ueda has frequently visited schools as a clinician-conductor, adjudicated for music festivals, and presented at music conferences.

Before his doctoral studies, Ueda studied orchestral conducting in New York and Vienna. After a conducting fellowship in Vienna, he served as the director of the orchestra program for the Vienna Summer Music Festival and as an assistant conductor for several opera productions.

Ueda received his Doctor of Musical Arts in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Arizona, studying with Dr. Thomas Cockrell, and his Master of Music in Instrumental Conducting and Bachelor of Music Education from Northern Arizona University.