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Ryan Cayabyab

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Raymundo Cipriano “Ryan” Pujante Cayabyab (; born May 4, 1954) is a Filipino musician, composer and conductor of Original Pilipino Music (OPM). He was the Executive and Artistic Director for several years for the defunct San Miguel Foundation for the Performing Arts. He was named National Artist of the Philippines for Music in 2018. His works range from commissioned full-length ballets, theater musicals, choral pieces, a Mass set to the unaccompanied chorus, and orchestral pieces, to commercial recordings of popular music, film scores and television specials. He composed the Da Coconut Nut Song performed by his Smokey Mountain band, Cayabyab’s current project includes the Ryan Cayabyab Singers (RCS), a group of seven singers comparable to Smokey Mountain in the early 1990s. After FreemantleMedia decided not to renew the Philippine Idol franchise, Cayabyab transferred to rival show Pinoy Dream Academy, replacing Jim Paredes as the show’s headmaster. PDA 2 started on June 14, 2008. He also became the chairman of the board of judges for GMA Network’s musical-reality show To The Top. He is the executive director of the PhilPop MusicFest Foundation Inc., the organization behind the Phil

Ryan S. Jhun

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Ryan S. Jhun () is a South Korean songwriter and record producer. Jhun is known for his work with various K-pop soloists and idol groups, getting his start through acts from SM Entertainment such as Shinee, Super Junior, f(x), Taeyeon, Exo, NCT, and TVXQ. He has since produced for several artists from other labels like IU, Loona, Lee Hyo-ri, U-KISS, Girl’s Day, Twice, NMIXX, Oh My Girl, Monsta X, Ive, BAE173, and Cravity, as well as songs for audition programs Produce 101 and My Teenage Girl. He founded and became chief executive officer of music production and publishing company Marcan Entertainment. He is also the CEO of Ateam Entertainment, where he produced for the label’s groups VAV and BugAboo. Background and career Jhun was born in South Korea on February 28, 1979. He moved to New York at ten years old, where he began being interested in music. He auditioned for SM Entertainment for what would eventually become boy band Shinhwa, however he was discouraged by his parents. He later traveled back to South Korea to submit his demos, with only SM accepting his music. His first released song was “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” for Lee Hyori’s album H-Logic (2010), while his first “hands

Ryan Shore

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Ryan Shore is a Canadian composer, songwriter, conductor, music producer, and music director for film, television, virtual reality, records, games, concerts, and theater. He is often known from his scores for Star Wars, Scooby-Doo!, Elmo, and Go! Go! Cory Carson. He is the nephew of Academy Award winning film composer Howard Shore. Shore’s accolades include three Emmy Award nominations, a Grammy Award nomination, two Hollywood Music in Media Awards, two Telly Awards, an ASCAP Award, and a Thailand Academy Award. He is a Yamaha Artist and a graduate of the Berklee College of Music. Music career Shore attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston on a full-tuition scholarship, receiving a Bachelor of Arts major in Film Scoring. Shore was Assistant Music Director and Contributing Composer/Arranger/Orchestrator for the 87th Academy Awards, where he worked with Lady Gaga, John Legend, Adam Levine, Anna Kendrick, Common, Tim McGraw, Jack Black, Neil Patrick Harris, and Jennifer Hudson. Shore’s 100+ composing credits include the Lin-Manuel Miranda movie musical In the Heights (additional music), Mark Steven Johnson’s romantic comedy features Champagne Problems (Netflix), Love in the Vil

Ryan Wigglesworth

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Ryan Wigglesworth (born 31 August 1979, Yorkshire) is a British composer, conductor and pianist. Biography Wigglesworth read music at Oxford University, where he held the position of Organ Scholar at New College, and continued his music studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. From 2007 to 2009, he was a lecturer at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. From 2013 to 2015, he was a composing fellow with The Cleveland Orchestra. Wigglesworth was principal guest conductor of The Hallé from 2015 to 2018. He and his wife, the soprano Sophie Bevan, founded The Davey Consort in 2017. Wigglesworth founded the Knussen Chamber Orchestra in 2019. Wigglesworth served as composer-in-residence with English National Opera (ENO). For ENO, he composed his opera The Winter’s Tale, based on Shakespeare’s play of the same name. The opera received its premiere on 27 February 2017. In 2018, he was composer in residence of the Grafenegg Festival in Lower Austria. He has appeared as the soloist of his own Piano Concerto (2019). In 2019, he became the Sir Richard Rodney Bennett Professor at the Royal Academy of Music. Several commercial recordings of Wigglesworth’s music a

Ryo Takahashi (musician)

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is a Japanese musician and composer. Growing up, Takahashi was a fan of American rock band the Ventures, which inspired him to take a musical career, and university inspired him to become a composer, which he was given his first lead role in with Please Tell Me! Galko-chan in 2016. Since 2016, he has done music composition for various series, such as ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. and SK8 the Infinity. Under the name Void_Chords, he has performed theme songs for Two Car, Princess Principal, and Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest. Biography Ryo Takahashi was born on November 1, 1985. Growing up, Takahashi was a fan of American rock band the Ventures, which would inspire him to pursue a musical career. While in university, Takahashi studied musical composition, which would influence him to become a composer. In 2016, he made his debut as lead composer with the anime adaptation of Please Tell Me! Galko-chan. Works TV series * Please Tell Me! Galko-chan (2016) (composer) * Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars (2016) (composer) * ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. (2017) (composer) * Princess Principal (2017) (opening theme performance) * Code: Realize − Guardian of Rebir

Ryōhei Hirose

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was a Japanese composer. Biography He studied at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, with Tomojirō Ikenouchi and Akio Yashiro. He served as a professor in the music department of the Kyoto City University of Arts from 1977 to 1996, afterwards filling various administrative posts there. He has also served as lecturer at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg (1997), Essen Music University (2003), the Kunitachi College of Music (1977–79), and the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (1991–1998). He has composed for both Japanese and Western instruments, but is best known for his compositions for shakuhachi and recorder. He has also composed for viola da gamba. Hirose’s recorder music has been widely recorded. See Recorded Recorders for a comprehensive discography. Hirose died on November 24, 2008. Compositions *Triste (cello concerto) (1971) *Festival Overture (orchestra) (1971) *Concerto for Shakuhachi and Orchestra (1976) *Blue Train (flute orchestra) (1979) *Sonata for Flute and Harpsichord (1964) *Hare for 3 shakuhachi (1969) *Aki 2 Shakuhachi (1969, arr. for Rec 1988) *Composition for Percussions, Viola and Violoncello (1970) *Potalaka Rec(A), Vc, Hp

Ryōko Kihara

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Ryoko Kihara (Often spelled as “Lioko Kihara” in her published works, 樹原涼子, Kihara Ryōko) is a Japanese composer, pianist, music educator, and author. Biography She was born in Kumamoto City, Kumamoto Prefecture and later pursued musical studies at the Musashino Academia Musicae. She is best known for her Piano Land series of instructional books for the piano. First published in 1991, the series has had a major influence on music pedagogy in Japan and is regarded as one of the most standard textbooks in piano education in the country. Kihara is also a composer; she composes classical music and music for video games. Her works for piano are popular among Japanese pianists and students. Japanese pianists such as Izumi Tateno have incorporated her works into their repertoire. Almost all of her music is published by Ongaku No Tomo Corporation. Kihara’s son Konosuke Kihara is also a composer and also composes music for video games. Major works Piano instruction books Piano Land series Source: “Piano Land (ピアノランド)” (In 5 Volumes, 1991~~92) “Piano Land; Techniques for Fun (ピアノランドたのしいテクニック)” (In 3 Volumes, 1993~~94) “Piano Land; For Concert (ピアノランドコンサート)” (In 3 Volumes, 2000) “Preparatory;

Ryonosuke Hirama

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is a Japanese musician, composer, arranger, record producer, pianist and keyboard player, based in Tokyo and Karuizawa. Career Hirama works on advertisement film and soundtrack, producing original albums, offering songs for various artists, and playing instruments at recordings and lives. Hirama is a central member of tangerine. which is a record producing group. He co-starred with a former erhu player from the Twelve Girls Band as a producer and a pianist at a concert held in Karuizawa 2016 and 2017. Hiramas recent work is a song called Blue Star by The Idolmaster (Dancin’ Blue, 2017). The song was introduced as a live performance in front of a 10,000 person audience at a 2018 New Year concert held at Makuhari Messe Chiba, Japan. Discography Total Production *Flavor Bossa Case (2006) *Flavor Bossa Case II (2006) *FLAVOR BOSSA CASE ORANGE STYLE (2007) *FLAVOR BOSSA CASE SAKURA (2008) *FLAVOR BOSSA CASE TEARS (2008) *Login! (2009) *Plugin! (2009) *SPRING SWEET LOVE (2010) *Flavor Bossa Case BEST OF GROOVE STYLE (2011) *Flavor Bossa Case BEST OF MELLOW STYLE (2011) Collaborations *Twilight Flavour (2005) *Aperitivo TOKYO (2006) *In The Morning BEST (2006) *Flavor Bossa Case BEST OF M

Ryuichi Sakamoto

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was a Japanese musician, composer, keyboardist, record producer, singer and actor. He pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of the synth-based band Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his YMO bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music genres. and his composition “Energy Flow” (1999) was the first instrumental number-one single in Japan’s Oricon charts history. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) marked his debut as both an actor and a film score composer; its main theme was adapted into the single “Forbidden Colours”, which became an international hit. His most successful work as a film composer was his original score for The Last Emperor (1987), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Score, making him the first Japanese composer to win an Academy Award. He continued earning accolades composing for films such as The Sheltering Sky (1990), Little Buddha (1993), and The Revenant (2015). On occasion, Sakamoto also worked as a composer and a scenario writer on anime and video games. He was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Ministry of Culture in 2009 f