Thanks for checking out my Spotify page! You may not know this, but Spotify doesn't not pay artists fairly (I make in the order of cents from streams each year) -- if you are enjoying what you're hearing, please consider making a donation, or better yet buy the music on bandcamp.com. /End of PSA Yuma Uesaka is a saxophonist, clarinetist, and a composer known for his improvisational sensibilities and his powerful sound in the New York City creative music scene. He has performed in renowned venues in NYC such as The Jazz Gallery, Roulette, and National Sawdust, as well as in international music festivals such as Detroit Jazz Festival, Lima ICPNA Jazz Festival (Peru), and Otsu Jazz Festival (Japan). He is an alumnus Banff Jazz and Creative Music Workshop (Vijay Iyer, Tyshawn Sorey) and Ensemble Evolution (Claire Chase, Steven Schick, International Contemporary Ensemble). As an improviser-performer, Yuma has premiered works by Anna Webber (Idiom VI) and Alvin Lucier (Monteverdi Shapero). He holds two degrees from the University of Michigan, where he majored in Jazz Studies and Computer Science Engineering. There he studied with Geri Allen, Robert Hurst, Andrew Bishop, and Erik Santos. Since relocating to NYC, he has studied clarinet with Vasko Dukovski and composition with Eric Wubbels.