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Akari Kaida

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is a Japanese video game music composer. She composed various soundtracks for Capcom games, including multiple in the Mega Man series. She has occasionally been credited as Akari Groves, taking the surname of her husband. Career Kaida was a jazz piano major in college, spending her first year at the Osaka College of Music before joining Capcom in 1994. She became a freelance composer in 2005, but still continued to work on various Capcom projects, most recently becoming part of the Inti Creates sound team for Mega Man games. Notable works References External links *

Åke Parmerud

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Åke Parmerud (born 24 July 1953) is a Swedish composer, musician, and multimedia artist noted for his acoustic and electronic works, which have been performed mostly in Europe, Mexico, and Canada. He is also noted for the design of stage and acoustics as well as interactive media and software. He has received recognition for his work from a number of festivals in Europe and has won two Swedish Grammis awards. He has been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music since 1998. Biography Education Parmerud was born in Lidköping, Sweden. After working as a photographer from 1972 to 1974, Parmerud began his music studies in 1978 at the Högskolan för Scen och Musik (Conservatory of Theatre and Music) at the University of Gothenburg, where his teachers included the electronic-music composer and visual artist Rune Lindblad. He also studied with electronic-music pioneer Lars Gunnar Bodin Electronic Music Studio (EMS) in Stockholm (Peterson 2001; Parmerud n.d.). Career Parmerud has been active since the 1970s in music (instrumental and electro-acoustic), multimedia and interactive art and music for videos, dance and cinema (Anon. 2011a). He has been commissioned to write works for instit

Åke Uddén

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Åke Olof Sebastian Uddén (18 August 1903 – 28 April 1987) was a Swedish violist, composer, conductor and music educator. Uddén was born in Lossa (now Låssa), Upplands-Bro Municipality, Stockholm County. He studied in Stockholm with Henrik Melcher Melchers and Julius Ruthström, and subsequently from 1926 to 1928 with Georges Caussade and Charles Tournemire at the Conservatoire de Paris. Uddén played viola in the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1943 until 1956. He was a teacher of counterpoint at the Royal College of Music from 1934 to 1970, and was also conductor of the Stockholm Academic Orchestra (1955–1985). One of his pupils was composer Hans Eklund. His limited output, influenced by French music, includes a number of orchestral, vocal and chamber music works, among them a string trio written during his studies in Paris, and two string quartets. He died in Stockholm. Selected works ;Orchestral * Nocturne * Vår (Spring) for chamber orchestra * Menuett (1932) * Saraband * Gavotte (1935) * Lustspels-Uvertyr (Comic Overture) (1935, revised 1950) * Introitus academicus (1971) ;Chamber music * String Trio (1928) * Sonata in D major for flute and viola, Op.2 (1931) * Duo “Småprat

Aki Takase

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(born January 26, 1948) is a Japanese jazz pianist and composer. Biography Takase was born in Osaka and started to play piano at age 3. Raised in Tokyo, she studied classical piano at Toho Gakuen School of Music. Starting in 1978, Takase began performing and recording in the US. Awards * The German Record Critics’ Award 1988, 1990, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2009, CD “Cherry-Sakura” with David Murray 2017/2. In total she received the awards 9 times (1988–2017). * Berliner Zeitung Award (the best Artists of 1999 in the Berlin Newspaper) * The SWR Jazz Award 2002. * Jazzpreis Berlin, 2018 * German Jazz Preis for Piano/Keyboard Award 2021. * Albert Mangelsdorff Prize 2021 References External links * Official site (in German, English and Japanese) * Aki Takase Representation

Akin Euba

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Olatunji Akin Euba (28 April 1935 – 14 April 2020) was a Nigerian composer, musicologist, and pianist. Career Born on 28 April 1935 in Lagos, Nigeria, Akin Euba studied composition with Arnold Cooke at the Trinity College of Music, London, obtaining the diplomas of fellow of the Trinity College London (Composition) and fellow of the Trinity College London (Piano). He was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in 1962. He received B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied with Mantle Hood, Charles Seeger, J. H. Kwabena Nketia, Klaus Wachsmann, and Roy Travis. He held a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Ghana, Legon (1974). While at Legon, Euba’s doctoral work was supervised by Professor Nketia, and his dissertation is titled “Dundun Music of the Yoruba”. Euba was professor and director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at the University of Lagos, and also served as a senior research fellow at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) in Nigeria. He served as head of music at the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation for five years. He was a research scholar and artist in residence at IWALEWA House, the African

Akio Yashiro

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was a Japanese composer. Biography He was born in Tokyo. Yashiro entered the Tokyo Music School (presently the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music) in 1945, where he studied composition under Saburo Moroi, Kunihiko Hashimoto, Tomojirō Ikenouchi, and Akira Ifukube, and piano under Noboru Toyomasu, Leonid Kreutzer, and Kiyo Kawakami. Upon finishing graduate courses in 1951, he went to Europe with Toshiro Mayuzumi and Sadao Bekku to study with a French governmental fellowship at Paris Conservatory. There he learned composition and orchestration from Olivier Messiaen, Tony Oban, and Nadia Boulanger. He returned home in 1956. He received several prizes for his compositions, including the Eighth Mainichi Music Prize in 1957 for String Quartet, which he had written while studying abroad, and Sixteenth Otaka Prize and the Twenty-first National Art Festival Award in 1968 for his Piano Concerto (1964–1967) which was commissioned by NHK. In 1968, Yashiro was inaugurated as an assistant professor at his alma mater, and he was promoted to professor in 1974. He died suddenly of heart failure at the age of 46. List of works *24 Preludes for piano (1945) *Sonatina for piano (1945) *Vi

Akio Yasuraoka

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(born January 13, 1958) is a Japanese composer. Biography Yasuraoka was born in Tokyo and studied with composers Teruyuki Noda (野田暉行) and Akira Miyoshi graduating Tokyo University of the Arts in 1984 with a master’s degree in music composition. He has received several awards and distinctions including the 1st Prize in Composition at the Music Competition of Japan (日本音楽コンクール) in 1980 and the 1982 Japan Symphony Foundation Composition Award for his Symphony. He was recipient of the 1994 Kenzo Nakajima Music Award (中島健蔵音楽賞). In 1985, Yasuraoka organized Art Respirant, a chamber orchestra of young performing artists and composers. Currently Yasuraoka is professor at Toho Gakuen School of Music and Tokyo University of the Arts. He is a member of the 21st Century Music Association (21世紀音楽の会) and a director of the Japan Society for Contemporary Music (日本現代音楽協会). Selected works The works of Yasuraoka are published by the Japan Federation of Composers, Zen-On Music, Ongaku-no-tomo Sha and Tokyo Academia Music. ;Orchestra * Symphony (1982) ;Concertante * Métamorphose concertante (協奏的変容) for Violin, Cello and Orchestra (1991) * Concerto Grosso No.1 “Animatori” (1993) * for Viola and Orchestra

Akira Ifukube

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was a Japanese composer. He is best known for composing several entries in the Godzilla franchise as well as developing the titular monster’s roar. Biography Early years in Hokkaido Akira Ifukube was born on 31 May 1914, in Kushiro, Japan as the third son of a police officer Toshimitsu Ifukube. The origins of this family can be traced back to at least the 7th century with the birth of Ifukibe-no-Tokotarihime. He was strongly influenced by the Ainu music as he spent his childhood (from age of 9 to 12) in Otofuke near Obihiro, where was with a mixed population of Ainu and Japanese. His first encounter with classical music occurred when attending secondary school in Sapporo city. Ifukube decided to become a composer at the age of 14 after hearing a radio performance of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, and also cited the music of Manuel de Falla as a major influence. Ifukube studied forestry at Hokkaido Imperial University in Sapporo and composed in his spare time, which prefigured a line of self-taught Japanese composers. His first piece was the piano solo, Piano Suite (later the title was changed to Japan Suite, arranged for orchestra), dedicated to George Copeland who was livin

Akira Inoue (musician)

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(born 8 September 1953), is a Japanese keyboard player, composer, arranger and producer. He was the recipient of the 23rd Japan Record Awards arranger award. History Inoue was born in Tokyo. His father was the pioneering Japanese cello player Yoritoro Inoue (井上頼豊). In the late 1970s, he played in the fusion group PARACHUTE. He released his first of many solo albums in the early 1980s. He has also composed, arranged, and performed music for several films and OVAs, including SF Shinseiki Lensman, Lily C.A.T., and the Japan/West Germany 1984 film Windy Story. In the 1990s, he played in The Voice Project and on projects with Masako Kawamura. He has produced projects for Anri, Mikio Sakai, Yoriko Ganeko, Masako Kawamura, The Voice Project, Kyosuke Himuro, MOON CHILD, Furukawa Ten-sei, Sojiro, harpist Mai Takematsu, Minako Honda and the Yoshida Brothers. Discography As solo artist * Tokyo Installation As arranger With Yui Asaka * C-Girl * TRUE LOVE * 恋のロックンロール・サーカス * Chance! * ボーイフレンドをつくろう * Self Control With The Alfee * 讃集詩 ALMIGHTY doubt * 恋人になりたい * 通り雨 * 泣かないでMY LOVE * SUNSET SUMMER * 暁のパラダイス・ロード * STARSHIP -光を求めて- With Anri * Trouble in Paradise With Ayumi Ishida * 赤いギヤマン * 波になって Wit

Akira Miyoshi

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Akira Miyoshi (三善晃; January 10, 1933 – 4 October 2013 ) was a Japanese composer. Biography Miyoshi was born in Suginami, Tokyo. He was a child prodigy on the piano, studying with Kozaburo Hirai and Tomojiro Ikenouchi. He studied French literature at the University of Tokyo, He returned to Japan in 1957 and graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1960. In 1965, he became a professor at the Toho Gakuen School of Music. In 1996, Miyoshi was awarded the Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Government. In 1999, he received the 31st Suntory Music Award. He received the Otaka prize six times for his compositions. Works Orchestral * 1960 Trois mouvements symphoniques – (Kôkyô sanshô) * 1962 Concerto for piano and orchestra * 1964 Duel for soprano and orchestra * 1964 Concerto for Orchestra * 1965 Concerto for violin and orchestra * 1969 Concerto for marimba and string ensemble * 1969 Odes métamorphosées * 1970 Festival Overture * 1970 Requiem for mixed choir and orchestra * 1974 Concerto for cello and orchestra * 1978 Noesis * 1979 Psaume for mixed choir and orchestra * 1982 En-Soi Lointain * 1984 Kyômon for children’s choir and orchestra * 1988 Litania pour Fuji

Akira Nishimura

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was a Japanese composer from Osaka. Biography Nishimura studied composition and musical theory on a graduate course at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He also studied Asian traditional music, religion, aesthetics, cosmology and the heterophonic concepts, all of which had a lasting influence on his music. Nishimura won several national and international awards, including the 36th Suntory Music Award (2004), and was commissioned by many overseas music festivals. His style consistently relied on a modal sense. When Heterophony for String Quartet was performed for the first time, he felt strongly that the tone selection at the beginning of the piece was strange, so much so that he immediately rewrote it into a modal version. Along with Joe Kondo, Nishimura has a wealth of recordings of his own works, but Nishimura also has many important works that are not included in his discography, such as Guren and From the Edge of Manra. In his later years, he wrote new works for the world of wind instruments. Nishimura was the judge at the 2007 Tōru Takemitsu composition award. Akira Nishimura died from jaw cancer on 7 September 2023, one day short of his 70th birthday. Works Op

Akira Yamaoka

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is a Japanese composer and sound designer. He has scored almost every installment of Konami’s horror video game series Silent Hill since 1999, also producing some of the entries and composing for three film adaptations. He has been the sound director at Grasshopper Manufacture since 2010 and has served as director and sound designer at Supertrick Games since 2018. Early life Akira Yamaoka was born in Niigata on February 6, 1968. He sought to become a designer, but instead became a musician whilst studying product design and interior design at Tokyo Art College. Career Yamaoka joined Konami on September 21, 1993. He immediately began to work on the games Contra: Hard Corps, Sparkster, and Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2. Shortly thereafter, he worked on the music for the PC Engine and Sega CD versions of Snatcher. When Konami began searching for a musician to compose the score for Silent Hill, Yamaoka volunteered because he thought he was the only one capable of making the soundtrack. He later named Silent Hill 2 as his favorite of his own soundtracks. On December 2, 2009, it was announced that Yamaoka was leaving Konami. On February 3, 2010, he joined Grasshopper Manufacture

Ákos Rózmann

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Ákos Rózmann (; 16 July 1939 – 12 August 2005) was a Hungarian-Swedish composer and organist. Biography Rózmann was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 16 July 1939. He studied composition with Rezső Sugár at the Bartók Béla Secondary School of Music between 1957 and 1961. From 1961 on, he attended the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, studying composition with Endre Szervánszky and organ with Sebestyén Pécsi. He graduated in both subjects in 1966. After gaining his diplomas, he worked as a teacher of score reading at the Teacher’s College of the Liszt Academy in Szeged. At the end of the sixties, he composed film music for Mafilm (Hungarian Film Studios). His Improvisazione for flute and piano was published in 1971 by Editio Musica Budapest. In 1971, he went to Sweden for postgraduate studies in composition. His teacher was Ingvar Lidholm at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. In the college studio, he discovered the tools of electroacoustic music making. He also started to work in Elektronmusikstudion (EMS, the Stockholm Electroacoustic Music Studio). The first result of his experiments was Impulsioni, a cycle of short electronic pieces from 1974, which won third prize at the Bourges

Aksel Agerby

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Aksel Agerby (29 May 1889 – 20 March 1942) was a Danish composer, organist, and music administrator. He also operated his own music publishing company, which published both his work and those of others. The majority of Agerby’s work as a composer was written for keyboard instruments. His most enduring work, the melody for Jeg er havren, was one of many Danish folk songs that he created music for. Personal life Aksel Andersen was born in Viborg on 29 May 1889 to Christian Andersen (1848–1913) and Mette Marie Jensen (1858–1896). His father, Christian, was a cobbler at the time, though he later became an archivist. Aksel and his father changed their surname in 1905 from Andersen to Agerby. Work Agerby was blind and was trained as an organist and pianist at the Institute for the Blind and Partially Sighted. He also studied under Nicolaj Hansen, , and Victor Bendix. From 1921, he was an organist at the Copenhagen Funeral service. From 1930 until his death, he played the organ at Brønshøj Church. A few other songs of his were recorded, some with Aksel Schiøtz. His musical output also included some songs and a few instrumental compositions, sometimes backed up by an orchestra. Most of his