Eugene Ughetti is a Melbourne-based percussionist, composer and conductor, and a founding member and artist director of Speak Percussion. He has studied with significant artists from most continents and completed an Honors degree in Classical Percussion at the Victorian College of the Arts. He has been a member of the Australian Youth Orchestra, Sydney Symphonia, Geminiani Orchestra, UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra and is a casual percussionist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He has worked under conductors Lorin Maazel, Charles Dutoit, Pierre Boulez, James Levine, Stephan Asbury, Sergei Gergiev, Neemi Jarvi, Franck Ollu, Markus Stenz, Denis Cohen and Yuri Temirkanov. Eugene has toured throughout Europe, Asia and North America. 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. He has undertaken professional collaborations with choreographers, animators, dancers, installation artists, actors and artistic directors, and has commissioned many new solo and ensemble works.