School of Music - Bruce Uchimura
Bruce Uchimura (1987)
Cello, Orchestra
B.M. Juilliard
M.M. Cleveland Institute
Artist's Diploma Cleveland Institute
He has also studied at the Aspen Festival, the Meadowmount School, Banff Centre, and at the Spoleto Festival in Italy.
His teachers include Leonard Rose, Channing Robbins, and Alan Harris; he has studied chamber music with Felix Galimir, Bernard Goldschmidt, Koichiro Harada, and the Juilliard Quartet.
He has performed with the Seraphin String Quartet and the symphonies of Charleston, South Carolina, and Macon, Georgia, as well as with the Aspen Chamber Orchestra and the South Carolina Philharmonic; was principal cellist and associate conductor of the Augusta (Georgia) Symphony, and principal cellist of the Spoleto Festival orchestras.
He has taught at Michigan State University, Augusta College, and the Cleveland Institute.
He continues on the faculty of the Encore School for Strings and is a member of the Merling Trio, a 1994 Naumburg Chamber Music Competition finalist.
Email: bruce.uchimura@wmich.edu