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Yoko Kanno

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is a Japanese composer, arranger and music producer of soundtracks for anime series, video games, television dramas and movies. She has written scores for Cowboy Bebop, Terror in Resonance, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Wolf’s Rain, Turn A Gundam and Darker than Black. Kanno is a keyboardist and the frontwoman for Seatbelts, who perform many of her compositions. Early life Yoko Kanno was born on 18 March 1963, in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Her earliest experiences with music came from attending church with her parents. She studied keyboard on both the piano in her home and the organ at her kindergarten. In elementary school, she began participating in composition contests, but in high school, Kanno began to take more of an interest in literature than in music. Kanno attended Waseda University, where she majored in literature, but she transcribed music for various student groups at Waseda in her free time. During this time, Kanno—whose parents had allowed her to listen only to classical music—was introduced to rhythm by a friend who played drums in a school band. She attended Otakon and Anime Expo in 1999, as well as Anime Expo New York in 2002. In 2010, she made a

Yonderboi

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László Fogarasi Jr. (born September 14, 1980), known by his stage name Yonderboi, is a Hungarian composer, music producer and visual artist. His debut album, Shallow and Profound, released in 2000, brought Eastern European music to the Western European electronic music scene, and was met with critical acclaim by producers Laurent Garnier and Gilles Peterson on Radio Nova and BBC Radio 1 Worldwide respectively, as well as performing at the Sziget festival and the Lowlands festival in 2000. His most notable collaboration so far has been an audio-visual show with British film director legend Peter Greenaway during the Berlin Film Festival of 2009. He has performed on diverse stages over the years, including festivals such as Sónar, Pukkelpop, Lowlands, Big Chill, Sziget, ADE and venues such as Razzmatazz in Barcelona, Melkweg and Paradiso (Amsterdam). Yonderboi’s music is often licensed to films, TV and fashion shows or video games, and he has scored movies, theater pieces and he has also composed music for art exhibitions like the Swiss Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2001. Biography Early years Yonderboi started experimenting with music in his teenage years, and had his first releas

Yoo Young-jin

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Yoo Young-jin is a South Korean singer-songwriter, record producer and vocal trainer formerly under SM Entertainment. He has produced and written songs for H.O.T., S.E.S, BoA, Shinhwa, TVXQ, CSJH The Grace, Super Junior, Girls’ Generation, Shinee, f(x), EXO, Red Velvet, NCT and aespa. Biography Yoo Young-jin was born in Gochang, South Korea on April 10, 1971. He has two younger brothers and sisters. He was a graduate from Jeonju High School. Career He started his singing career in 1993, with the release of his first EP, Blues in Rhythm single 1. Since then, he released a number of albums, one of them entitled Agape (2001), which is composed of 15 tracks featuring different artists under SM Entertainment. From 1996, Yoo also became a prolific producer and composer for SM, starting with H.O.T.’s first album. On March 15, 2023, it was reported that Yoo had officially left SM after 28 years under the company, as a result of the company’s management transition. Music discography Studio albums * Blues in Rhythm Album (November 1993) * Blue Rhythm (September 1996) * …지애(之愛) (Agape) (March 2001) EP * Blues in Rhythm single 1 (August 1993) Collaboration singles * “Tell Me (What Is Love)”

Yoon Jong-shin

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Yoon Jong-shin (; born October 15, 1969) is a South Korean singer-songwriter, record producer, and the CEO of Mystic Story. Early life and education Yoon completed high school at Daewon Foreign Language High School and studied Korean Language and Literature at Yonsei University, graduating in 1993. He joined a music club called Sochangsa () where he nurtured his love for music. Career In 1990, he made his debut as a guest singer for 015B. In 1991, he announced his first album Like the first time we met () as a solo singer which drew huge public interest. He has continuously collaborated with 015B since. In 2000, he made his movie debut in Can hardly stop them with a cameo along with the director, Kim. He became active in the field of entertainment and, in 2003, took a role in a sitcom Nonstop 4 where he played a professor. He owns a talent agency/record label called Mystic89, founded in 2001 with Lee Hak-hee. In 2009, he became a regular cast member in Radio Star, the main segment of MBC’s Golden Fishery, In February 2012, he made an appearance on SBS’s Healing Camp, Aren’t You Happy where he announced that he had Crohn’s disease, an incurable inflammatory bowel disease. He became

Yorgos Foudoulis

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Yorgos Foudoulis is a Greek classical guitarist and composer. His professional activities include performing, master classes, editing, and recording. He is the director of the Examination Center of Trinity College London in Volos, Greece, and the conservatory bearing his name. Yorgos Foudoulis is also the president of the International Examination board / center of the International Art Academy in Volos. He is an artistic director in the Winter Guitar Festival of Volos and the Porto Heli International Guitar Festival, and chairman of the International Art Society. Biography Foudoulis was born in Volos, Thessaly, Greece. He obtained his Teaching Diploma from the Philharmonic Conservatory of the Municipality of Volos and his Soloist Diploma from the New Conservatory of Music in Thessaloniki by Costas Kotsiolis. He also obtained his postgraduate diploma, Fellowship Diploma of Trinity College London (FTCL). As a young guitarist, he won many first prizes in international guitar competitions and attended a number of seminars including those with Leo Brouwer, Alirio Diaz, and David Russell. He has given many concerts in Greece as well as abroad (Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Bulgaria,

Yoritsune Matsudaira

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was a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music. Matsudaira was descended, on his father’s side of the family, from the Matsudaira clan, related to the Tokugawa clan who ruled Japan as shōgun during the Edo period (specifically from the branch of the family which was enfeoffed at the Hitachi-Fuchū Domain), and on his mother’s side of the family from the Fujiwara clan, who were court regents from the 7th to the 12th centuries. His style was influenced by gagaku, the ancient court music of Japan. His music has been frequently performed in Europe. His eldest son, Yoriaki (Yori’Aki) Matsudaira () was also a composer. Works Opera *Genji-Monogatari The Tale of Genji (1990–93) *Uji-jujo The ten Chapters of Uji (1998) Orchestral *Pastorale (1935) *Tema e variazioni sul tema di Etenraku per pianoforte e orchestra (1951) *Figures sonores (1956) *U-mai (1957) *Sa-mai (1958) *Suite di danze nelle stile dell’antico “Bugaku” giapponese (1959) *Sinfonietta (1961) *Bugaku per orchestra da camera (1962) *Tre movimenti per pianoforte e orchestra (1962) *Danza rituale e finale (1963) *Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra (1964) *Concerto da camera per clavicembalo, arpa e strumenti (1964) *Pre

York Bowen

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Edwin York Bowen (22 February 1884 – 23 November 1961) was an English composer and pianist. Bowen’s musical career spanned more than fifty years during which time he wrote over 160 works. As well as being a pianist and composer, Bowen was a talented conductor, organist, violist and horn player. Despite achieving considerable success during his lifetime, many of the composer’s works remained unpublished and unperformed until after his death in 1961. Bowen’s compositional style is widely considered ‘Romantic’ and his works are often characterized by their rich harmonic language. Biography Bowen was born in Crouch Hill, London, to a father who was the owner of the whisky distillers Bowen and McKechnie. The youngest of three sons, Bowen began piano and harmony lessons with his mother at an early age. His talent was recognised almost immediately and he soon began his musical education at the North Metropolitan College of Music. He subsequently went on to study at the Blackheath Conservatoire of Music with Alfred Izard. In 1898, at the age of fourteen, Bowen gained an Erard scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. He studied there until 1905, learning composition with Frederick Corder

York Höller

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York Höller (; born 11 January 1944) is a German composer and professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. Biography Höller was born in Leverkusen. Between 1963 and 1970 he studied at the Cologne Musikhochschule: composition with Joachim Blume and Bernd Alois Zimmermann, piano with Else Schmitz-Gohr and Alfons Kontarsky, and orchestral conducting with Wolfgang von der Nahmer. Parallel to this, he studied musicology and philosophy at the University of Cologne. He did further musical studies at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt with Pierre Boulez, and in 1967 sat his examination in music education. Höller was active for a short time as a répétiteur at the Staatstheater Bonn. At the Electronic Music Studio of WDR in 1971–72, he “continued his studies with Karlheinz Stockhausen” or, alternatively, “was given the chance, at Stockhausen’s invitation, to realize works of his own”. In any case, the technique he developed at this time—a form of extended serialism which he calls “Gestalt composition”—bears a resemblance to the older composer’s formula composition, and in 1982 Höller dedicated his orchestral work Schwarze Halbinseln to Stockhausen. He qu

Yosef Karduner

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Yosef Karduner (; born 1969) is an Israeli Hasidic singer, songwriter, and composer. His biggest hit, In his early teens he studied music and in particular the bass guitar. After discussions with Hitman and his father, who was from a Hasidic Lubavitcher family, Karduner suspended his career and began studying in a yeshiva run by the Breslover Hasidim for Jews who had turned to Orthodox Judaism (“baalei teshuva”). Shir LaMaalot has been covered by numerous Israeli artists, including Sheva. Although he has released 11 albums, Karduner’s work has not reached a wide audience due to his aversion to public relations and advertising. He rarely gives interviews. including annual appearances in Crown Heights, Brooklyn from 2011 to 2019 with Aryeh Kunstler. Karduner also joins Moshe Weinberger, rabbi of Congregation Aish Kodesh at the annual Hilula of Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, the rebbe of Piacezna. At those annual events, Weinberger preaches while Karduner performs. He and his wife, Vered, and reside in Beit Shemesh, Israel. Musical style The teachings of Nachman of Breslov are a major source for Karduner’s musical inspiration. He has also been referred to as The “Sweet Singer of Breslov”.

Yoshifumi Ushima

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Yoshifumi Ushima (; 9 September 1966 - 7 August 2022) was a Japanese singer-songwriter, composer, guitarist, arranger and music producer. Life and career Born in Sukumo, Ushima made his professional debut in 1994 composing and performing “Flying in the Sky”, the opening theme of the anime series Mobile Fighter G Gundam; he later wrote and performed other songs for the anime, notably the second opening theme “Trust You Forever”, as well as songs of other anime series and films. Ushima also served as composer and songwriter for other artists, notably Chihiro Yonekura, AKB48, Yusuke, and Shinnosuke Furumoto. A commemorative concert featuring MIQ and Yurika, among others, was held on 22 September 2022 in Tokyo. Discography ;Albums * 1995 - Free Judgement * 1996 - Sleepless Dreamer * 2007 - FIRE BIRD * 2018 - EARTH WIND ;Singles * 1994 - FLYING IN THE SKY * 1994 - Trust You Forever * 1995 - BACK TO THE GROUND References External links * *

Yoshihisa Hirano

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is a Japanese composer and arranger. He is best known for composing the scores for anime series, such as Death Note, Hunter × Hunter (2011), Hajime no Ippo and Edens Zero. He has also made the orchestration for video games, mostly in the Final Fantasy franchise. His musical style combines impressionism and atonal music. He employs techniques such as polyrhythm, tone clusters, polytonality, brass glissandi and polymodal chromaticism to create unique musical textures. Biography Yoshihisa Hirano was born in Wakayama, Japan, in 1971. He started to study composition by himself as an elementary student because of his interest for baroque music. He then discovered jazz in high school, and this enthusiasm has shaped his career in music. He mentioned having listened to Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Eric Dolphy and John Coltrane, among others. His admiration of them once gave him dreams of becoming a jazz musician, but he then discovered contemporary music. He gained interest in the works of John Zorn, one of the musicians who had the biggest influence on him in his youth. On the other hand, symphonies by Shostakovich also greatly impressed him, and helped him make up his mind to study compo

Yoshihisa Taira

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was a Japanese-born French composer. Biography Yoshihisa Taïra was born in Tokyo in 1937. Initially, he studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts. He arrived in France in 1966 where he then studied at the Conservatoire de Paris. Among his teachers were André Jolivet, Henri Dutilleux and Olivier Messiaen. He was a composition lecturer at the École Normale de Musique in Paris. Among his best-known students at École Normale were Chien-Hui Hung, Mansoor Hosseini and Malika Kishino. Taïra died in Paris, in March 2005. Works Taira’s works are partially published by Éditions Musicales Transatlantiques. Orchestra *Hiérophonie III *Stratus for flute, harp and strings ensemble *Chromophonie *Sonomorphie III *Méditations *Trans-apparence *Erosion I for flute and orchestra *Moksa, vimoksa *Tourbillon for 6 percussionists and orchestra *Polyèdre Chamber music *Hiérophonie I for 4 cellos *Hiérophonie II for 15 instruments *Fusion for 2 flutists and 3 percussionists *Stratus for harp and flute *Dioptase for three strings *Radiance for solo piano and 13 instruments *Eveil for oboe and harp *Interférences I for and cellos *Clea for 12 strings *Dimorphie for 2 percussions *Fu-mon for 4 flutes *Res

Yoshirō Irino

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was a Japanese composer. Biography Irino was born in Soviet Vladivostok. He attended high school in Tokyo and went on to study economics at Tokyo Imperial University (now University of Tokyo). After World War II, Irino, along with colleagues Minao Shibata and Kunio Toda, studied the twelve-tone method of composition devised by Arnold Schoenberg. In 1951, Irino used the composition technique to compose his Concerto da Camera for Seven Instruments. This work is credited to be the first Japanese dodecaphonic composition. During the same time, the magazine Ongaku Geijutsu published two articles by Irino: “Schoenberg’s Composing Technique” and “What is Twelve-Tone Music?”. Subsequently, Irino used the twelve-tone technique in numerous compositions and wrote extensively about contemporary music. Working to introduce foreign contemporary music and music literature to Japan, he made Japanese translations of important books such as Die Komposition mit zwölf Tönen (12音による作曲技法) by Josef Rufer and Schoenberg and His School (シェーンベルクとその楽派) by René Leibowitz. Irino did not, however, compose serial music, a technique of the same period widely used with the Darmstadt School. In 1973, the Asian Comp

Yoshitaka Hirota

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is a Japanese video game composer and bass guitarist, whose most notable works include the soundtracks to the Shadow Hearts series. Hirota was previously a sound effects programmer having worked on various Square titles. His first work as a video game composer was for the 1999 Nintendo 64 game Bomberman 64: The Second Attack. Biography Early works As a teenager, Hirota’s older brother would play covers of The Beatles and The Carpenters. Hirota composed his first song at the age of ten. At the age of 20, unsure of his career path, Hirota was invited by composer Yasunori Mitsuda to work at Square, and was hired as a sound designer. Square Hirota has a friendship from childhood with fellow composer Yasunori Mitsuda who he has worked with on Bomberman 64: The Second Attack, Biohazard 2 Drama Albums, Shadow Hearts and Shadow Hearts II. Under the direction of Mitsuda, Street Fighter Alpha 3 was to have a “hard” sound, and Biohazard 2 was to have an “ominous sound”. Shadow Hearts Kyoko Kishikawa has worked with Hirota on Shadow Hearts, Shadow Hearts II (although not Shadow Hearts: From the New World) and Rogue Galaxy Premium Arrange, providing eerie female scat vocals for a number of his

Young Jonn

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John Saviours Udomboso (born 16 February 1995), known professionally as Young Jonn, is a Nigerian singer, songwriter and record producer, currently signed to Chocolate City Music. He is also known for his hit singles Dada and the remix with Davido. He had music production credits on industry hits during the 2010s and was affiliated with the YBNL mafia family going on to be ranked #3 in The NETs list of “Nigeria’s Top 7 Biggest Music Producers” and went on to be nominated in the “Producer of The Year” at the 2015 Nigeria Entertainment Awards and The Headies 2015. Early life and education Udomboso was born in Ibadan into a Christian family, who came from Akwa Ibom. Udomboso attended the Ideal Foundation Primary School, Ibadan and GOF College, Osogbo, Osun State. During his high school days in Osogbo, he was interested in basketball, soccer, musical imstruments, miming and dance. He studied Communication and Language Arts at the University of Ibadan. While working as producer at Hit Factory, he produced a chart-topping single by Olamide titled “Story For The Gods”. He was nominated for “Producer of The Year” at the 2015 edition of The Headies for his work on “Bobo”, a song by Olamide

Young-ja Lee (composer)

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Young-ja Lee (; born 4 June 1931) is a South Korean music educator and composer. She is considered by many the greatest living female Korean composer. Life and career Born in Wonju, Lee studied at Ewha Womans University, the Conservatoire de Paris, and the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. She continued her education at the Manhattan School of Music. Lee endured hardships during the Japanese occupation and Korean War, but emerged to become one of the dominant forces in Korean music in the 20th century. Lee was one of the six founding members of the Korean Society of Women Composers and served as the first president of the organization. She is often called the “Face and Mother of Korean Modern Music.” Her works have been performed internationally and are available as recordings. Young-Ja Lee’s music combines elements from French, West African, Indonesian gamelan, and traditional Korean music, creating unusual intercultural compositions. Works Selected works include: *Pelerinage de l’Ame for Violin, Cello, and Piano *Trio for flute, clarinet and bassoon *Variations for piano *Lament for three kotos *Six songs *Réminiscences de la Proven References

Younghi Pagh-Paan

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Younghi Pagh-Paan (born 1945) is a South Korean composer. Life Pagh‑Paan was born in Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea. She studied music at the Seoul National University from 1965 to 1971. In 1974 she received a DAAD scholarship to study in Germany and entered the Freiburg Musikhochschule, where she studied composition with Klaus Huber, analysis with Brian Ferneyhough, music theory with Peter Förtig and piano with Edith Picht-Axenfeld. After completing her studies, she took guest professorships at Graz in 1991 and Karlsruhe in 1992–93. In 1994 she became a professor of composition at the University of the Arts Bremen. She founded and serves as director of Atelier Neue Musik. She was one of the top 10 performed composers on the Internationalen Ferienkurse für Neue Musik between 1946 and 2014. Honors and awards *1978 1st Prize at the 5th Composers Seminar in Boswil (Switzerland) *1979 1st Prize at the International Rostrum of Composers (Unesco, Pads) *1979 Nan‑Pa Music Prize, Korea *1980 1st Prize of the City of Stuttgart *1980/1981 Scholarship at the Südwestfunk’s Heinrich‑Strobel-Stiftung *1985 Scholarship from the Kunststiftung of Baden-Württemberg *1995 Heidelberg Artists