Born in Tokyo in 1965. Since graduating with honours from Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Music, Department of Composition, Taro has been working mainly in film music.
He received the highest award by 1991 Silk Road International Orchestral Composition Competition (sponsored by Asahi Shimbun, UNESCO and others).
He is a winner of The Japan Academy Award for Best Original Music Score for ‘Chi to Hone (Blood and Bones, 2004)’, ‘Haru no Yuki (Spring Snow, 2005)’, ‘Semi Shigure (2005)’, ‘Rikyu ni Tazuneyo (Ask Rikyu, 2014)’, ‘Fukushima 50 (2020)’, and Mainichi Film Awards for ‘Yami no Kodomotachi (Children of the Dark, 2008)’.
Internationally, the film score of ‘Red Cliff 1 & 2 (2008-09)’ made him a nominee of 36th Saturn Award Music Award and a Best Musi Award winner of Hong Kong Film Award, and ‘Fukushima 50 (2020)’ won the IMFCA 2020 17th International Film and Music Critics Association Award.
Taro’s other film music works include ‘Memories of Murder (2003)’, ‘Naku Monka (No More Cry, 2009)’, ‘Commander-in-Chief Yamamoto Isoroku (2011)’, ‘Yurusarezaru Mono (Unforgiven, 2013)’, ‘The Crossing 1 & 2 (2014-15)’, ‘Museum (2016)’, ‘Manhunt (2017)’, ‘Kubo Ibuki (Aircraft Carrier Ibuki, 2019)’, ‘Newspaper Reporter (2019)’, ‘Mother (2020)’, ‘Yakuza and Family (2021)’, ‘Namo Naki Hi (Nameless Day, 2021)’ and ‘Kinema no Kamisama (God of Cinema (2021)’.
He also wrote scores for NHK’s Morning Drama series ‘Aguri’, NHK Special documentaries, and NHK Taiga Drama series ‘Aoi Tokugawa Sandai’ and ‘Yoshitsune.

After graduating from the composition department of Tokyo University of the Arts, Kiyoko has been active mainly in stage and video music.
Her works includes, theaters: ‘History of Japan’, ‘Showgirl (directed by Koki Mitani)’, ‘Harold and Mode’, ‘Tomadoi no Wakusei (directed by G2)’, ‘Sakurahime (directed by Keishi Nagatsuka)’, ‘Limelight (directed by Koichi Ogita)’ and ‘Stand by You (directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi)’, films: ‘Suteki na Kanashibari’ and ‘Kioku ni Gozaimasen’, TV drama series: ‘Shokichi no Nyobo’, ‘Jun to Ai (NHK Asadora-series)’ and ‘Kaseifu wa mita (EX)’, TV commercials: ‘Nippon Ham SCHAU ESSEN’ and ‘Kikkoman Uchi no Gohann’.
She also participates in various musical works and artist concerts as music director and pianist, and winner of 32nd, 35th and 37th Japan Academy Awards for Best Music.

Graduated from Berklee College of Music, Jazz Composition and Arrangement Department with honour in 1983. In the same year, Makoto became the first Japanese who signed an exclusive record contract with CBS, US, and made his worldwide debut with his album ‘OZONE’ which was nominated for 2003 Grammy Award.
He has been at the forefront of jazz and big band activities, co-starring with world-class players such as Chick Corea, Gary Burton, Branford Marsalis and Paquito D’Rivera.
He has also worked on classical music and performed with international orchestras such as the NY Philharmonic and San Francisco Symphony.
In 2020, during the state of emergency of COVID-19, he broadcasted ‘Welcome to Our Living Room’, live performance series from his home for 53 days and this became a hot topic by achieving lots of audiences.
In 2021, for his 60th birthday celebration, he will launch ‘OZONE 60’, rolling out to all prefectures nationwide Japan, starting with a commemorative recital at Suntory Hall on his birthday of March 25th.
Received Shiji Hosho of Japan, the medal of honour with Purple Ribbon in 2018.

Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Music, Department of Instrumental Music, Piano Major.
Formed a band ‘G-CLEF’ while attending Tokyo University of the Arts; opened a field of instrumental fusion music based on his outstanding musical abilities and performance skills, and produced a broad array of achievements, including the first-ever appearance by an instrumental band on ‘Kohaku Utagassen’, an annual year-end music show on NHK TV.
Sakakibara’s powerful style and superb sensitivities go beyond genre and continue to be demonstrated after the dissolution of his band. He began full-fledged solo activities in 2001 and has released 12 original albums to date.
He has also worked on numerous soundtracks for movies and television dramas, including the score for NHK’s morning drama series ‘Fight’, the NTV drama ‘Bull Doctor’, the film ‘Aito Kibo no Machi’, the theme music for ‘ANN News’ and ‘Wide! Scrambles for Asahi TV networks.
In 2019, he released 30th anniversary album ‘Natural’ from King Records, and writes music score for film ‘Minori Yuku’, released in autumn 2020.

Born in Tokyo in 1952 and made his solo debut with “Thousand Knives” in 1978. In the same year, he formed ‘YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA (YMO)’ and has been active in many fields since its spreading (breakup).
Received the British Academy Film Award for the movie “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” (directed by Nagisa Oshima), and Oscar Best Original Score Award, Grammy Award for ‘Last Emperor (directed by Bernardo Bertolucci)’.
Sakamoto’s pursuit of innovative sound has earned him worldwide acclaim.
There are many references and music of his to environmental and peace issues, such as the establishment of the forest conservation group ‘More Trees’, the support for the no nuclear power station society through activities such as ‘Stop Rokkasho’ and ‘NO NUKES’. He also launched ‘Tohoku Youth Orchestra’ and support the activities for the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake.
In 2013, he became the artistic director of the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) as their 10th anniversary project and became the guest director of Sapporo International Arts Festival 2014.
In 2017, he released a solo album ‘Async’ for the first time in eight years and held an installation exhibition ‘Installation Music Exhibition’ with the theme of the album.
In 2018, he exhibited multiple installation works at ‘Life, Life’ exhibition, held at the art space ‘piknic’, completed in Seoul, South Korea, and mobilized more than 60,000 people.
His works is not limited to musical expression, but is also actively crossing the border to the art. For instance, in March 2021, a large-scale exhibition “Ryuichi Sakamoto: seeing sound, hearing time”, a collection of installation works released to date, started at the M WOODS HUTONG museum in Beijing, China. And in June of the same year, new theater work ‘Time’, which is the new operatic work since ‘Life’ in 1999, made a world premiere in Holland Festival.
Major film music works include ‘The Sheltering Sky (1990)’, ‘High Heels (1990)’, ‘Femme Fatale (2002)’, ‘Nagasaki: Memories of My Son (2015)’, ‘The Revenant: The Revenant (2015)’, ‘Rage (2016)’, ‘The Fortress (2017)’, ‘Your Face (2018)’, ‘Proxima (2019)’ and others.

Graduated Tokyo University of the Arts, Composition department.
Satoru played for ‘Orquesta de la Luz’ as pianist for 10 years since he was a student (winner of the 1993 United Nations Peace Medal, 1995 Grammy Award nominee), and released 12 original albums as a solo artist.
In addition to his own activities, he co-stared with Makoto Ozone(p), ‘SALT & SUGAR’ with Chikuzen Sato(vo), ‘AGA-SHIO” with Hiromitsu Kamitsuma(shamisen), Richard Storzmann(cla), Sadao Watanabe(sax), Kaori Muraji(g), Iwao Furusawa(vln) and many others.
He has produced the concert series ‘Cool Classics (1999-01)’ sponsored by Bunkamura Orchard Hall, played with orchestra (NHK Symphony Orchestra in 2017 & 2018, Osaka Symphony Orchestra in 2017) and played in various genres and forms of activities. In recent years, he has co-produced Ayaka’s sound production.
For TV, he wrote orchestra arrangements for NHK’s program ‘Meikyoku (=masterpiece) Album’ series, NHK e-TV program ‘Hobby Do-raku – Satoru Shionoya’s Piano Rhythm (2014)’, Fuji TV’s drama series ‘Mutsu – Mierume (2015)’, NHK e-TV’s music puppet variety program ‘Korenande Shokai (2016-)’
He is an associate professor at Kunitachi College of Music.

B.A. in music composition, Tokyo University of the Arts. In 2002, Shibuya established a music label, ATAK. He has produced a wide range of music from cutting-edge electro-acoustic works to piano solo pieces, opera, film music and sound installations.
In 2012 he released the Vocaloid Opera ‘THE END’ starring Hatsune Miku, without any human beings. In 2018 he released Android Opera ‘Scary Beauty’, a humanoid android with AI conducts a human orchestra and sings with them. In September 2019, he released Buddhist Chant: Shomyo + Electronic sounds ‘Heavy Requiem’ through collaboration with Japanese traditional monk Eizen Fujiwara at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria. He creates his music to explore the border between human beings and technology.
Recently, he composed the music for the film ‘Midnight Swan’ starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, released in September 2020 and received the Music Award at the 75th Mainichi Film Awards and the 30th Japan Movie Critics Award. In August 2021, he will release new opera ‘Super Angels’ (Conductor: Kazushi Ono, Writer: Masahiko Shimada) at New National Theater, Tokyo Japan.

Miho has a degree in classical composition from the Kunitachi College of Music and a master’s degree in jazz composition from the Manhattan School of Music.
She has contributed compositions to Yosuke Yamashita, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Yamaha Symphonic Band, and the NHK drama series ‘Akko-chan for Lunch’. She also does wide range of music arrangements to Ryuichi Sakamoto, Shiro Sagisu, NHK Symphony Orchestra, TV Asahi’s ‘Untitled Concert’ and others.
She made a debut as a jazz composer by releasing ‘Journey to Journey’ in 2012 and getting high praises, which includes being selected as the only Asian to be named ‘25 artists shape Jazz in future’ by Downbeat Magazine in 2016 and named ‘100 Japanese People Respected by the World’ by Newsweek Japan in 2019.
Her third album, ‘Dancer in Nowhere’, was chosen by New York Times as ‘Jazz Album Best 10’ in 2019 and was nominated for the Grammy Awards for Large Jazz Ensemble category. Miho became a composer in residence of Siena Wind Orchestra in 2017. In 2019, she took up a post as the chief conductor of Danish Radio Big Band. Besides DR Big Band, Miho has worked as a guest conductor with Metropole Orkest (Netherlands).
Miho’s awards and honors include the Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Prize (2015), 24th Idemitsu Music Award (2014), ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award (2011), and was honored by the Scholarship Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists from the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs.

Born in Osaka, and moved to England at the age of 15.
Dai studied composition under Edwin Roxburgh, Darryl Lanswick and George Benjamin.
He is the winner of the Serotsuki International Composition Competition in Poland (the youngest winner at the time), the Royal Philharmonic Composition Award, the International Vienna Composition Award in Austria, the Paul Hindemitt Award in Germany, the 57th Otaka Award and the 19th in 2009. He has won numerous well-known composition awards, including the Akutagawa Composition Award, the 2010 Kenzo Nakajima Music Award, and the Exxon Mobile Award.
He currently lives in the UK.

Born in 1978, from Hamamatsu, Shizuoka. Started playing the piano at the age of 5 and made his debut with the original piano solo album ‘Window’ while in high school.
Graduated from Kunitachi College of Music, Composition department.
As a composer, his talent was noticed from early on, and since he was in charge of a Kadokawa movie ‘Inugami’ while he was in college, he has worked on more than 70 movies, TV dramas, theatrical performances and musicals. Received the Japan Academy Award for Best Music Score, for 2 consecutive years in the movies ‘64-Rokuyon-Part 1’ and ‘The True Story of the Bride’s Miracle Over 8 Years’.
He has a wide range of activities, and he provided many songs such as ‘The Song of Life’ by Mariya Takeuchi, ‘Far away’ by the British Boys Chorus Group, Libera in 2019 NHK Kohaku Utagassen, Japan’s long time going end year TV program.
In recent years, he has expanded his field of activity to the world, including the music of Studio Ghibli’s ‘When Marnie Was There’ and the music of Youku’s drama ‘The Longest Day In Chang’an’, which has become his first overseas work and is distributed worldwide.

Spent her childhood in New York City.
Yuko has captured several impressive awards in Japan, including first prize at the prestigious Japan Music Competition. She graduated Toho Gakuen University and was awarded from Japanese Government to attend The Julliard School in NY.
Made her US debut at Carnegie Hall and at Lincoln Center, and became first prize winner of Frinna Awerbuch International Piano Competition and Julliard Soloist Audition. Thereafter, she has maintained an active concert schedule as a top soloist internationally.
She has also been successful in the media – having her own radio program, and being the host of NHK program “Weekly Book Review” for 6 yrs.
She has started a sensationally unique classic duo “OBSESSION” with drums & percussionist Akira Horikoshi in 2014 and is expanding more fans crossover.
Her beautiful sound and dynamic virtuosity have always inspired many audiences, and has also garnered critical acclaim for her broad repertoire which spans from baroque to contemporary music.
Yuko is also an associate professor at Kyoto City University of Arts.