SPONTE SUA
The Japanese lutenist Asako Ueda is based in the Netherlands, pursuing her passion for early music performance, especially chamber music from the 15th to 18th centuries. She won first prize at the Biagio Marini Competition (Germany), third prize at the International Van Wassenaer Competition (the Netherlands), second prize at London International Festival of Music (UK). She collaborates with The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, B’Rock, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Elisabeth Hetherington, and Amsteredam Sinfonietta.
In 2019, she established herself not only as an ensemble player but also as a prominent soloist, giving solo recitals on theorbo at the Luitdag of the Dutch Lute Society, and on Renaissance lute at the Dag van het Kasteel.
She studied Medieval and Renaissance music with Dr. Marc Lewon at Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, supported by the Prins Bernhard Cultuur scholarship. Prior to this, she focused on lute studies at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, under the guidance of Mike Fentross and Joachim Held. She successfully earned her Bachelor’s degree with honors and was awarded the Excellence Scholarship from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, enabling her to pursue a Master’s degree, which she completed with a distinction.
She started taking elementary music lessons from the age of four. Her first instrument was the violin, which she started when she was five years old. After finishing her Bachelor’s degree in violin in Tokyo, she continued at the same college to study Baroque violin and composition.
Pablo Sosa was born in 1991 in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife. In 2009 he moved to Madrid, where he studied for four years the Bachelor degree at the Royal Conservatory of Madrid and finally graduated in 2013 with honors. In 2013 he was admitted for the Early Music Performance Master in Barcelona, where he studied traverso with Marc Hantaï. In June 2017 he finished the Master degree of both baroque and classical flute at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag in the class of Wilbert Hazelzet and Kate Clark with
honors and distinction.
He has played with several early music orchestras, such us: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Freiburger Barockorchester, Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra, Les Musiciens du Prince-Monaco, Orchestra la Scintilla, Bach Orchestra and Choir of the Netherlands, Balthasar Neumann Orchestra, PRJCT Amsterdam, Luthers Bach Ensemble or Orquesta Barroca de Tenerife, among others.
He takes part of different chamber music ensembles, such us El Gran Teatro del Mundo, Sponte Sua, Academia de los Afectos or The Goldfinch Ensemble – who got the first prize in the Internationale Händel Festspiele Göttingen Competition in 2016 and the second prize in the International Early Music Competition in Loire Valley in 2015. He has played with these ensembles in several early music festivals such as: Bach Akademie Brugge, Festival d’Ambronay, Festival de Sablé, Festival di Natale Pavia, Festival de Saintes or York Early Music Festival.
