Yuka Kitamura

is a Japanese composer. She is best known for her compositions for various games by the Japanese development studio FromSoftware, most notably serving as the lead composer for Dark Souls III. She left FromSoftware in 2023 to pursue freelance work. Biography Kitamura was born in Hokkaido. After graduating from Sapporo Visual Arts College with a degree in music production, she began working at FromSoftware in 2011. There, she composed music for several of the studio’s successful games, including Bloodborne, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and Elden Ring. She also took the place of Motoi Sakuraba as lead composer for Dark Souls III. Additionally, she was a member of FreQuency, a band composed of members of FromSoftware’s sound team and led by Tsukasa Saitoh. In August 2023, she announced that she was leaving FromSoftware and would be working as a freelancer from then on. Since then, she has composed music with fan artist Alex Roe, and has announced that she is working on music for The Touhou Empires, a video game which is as of November 2024 unreleased. Works Film and television Videogames FreQuency Musical style Kitamura is noted for not only composing her music, but occasionally performi