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Yoko Shimomura (下村 陽子, Shimomura Yōko, born October 19, 1967) is a Japanese composer and pianist primarily known for her work in video games such as the Kingdom Hearts series. She graduated from the Osaka College of Music in 1988 and began working in the video game industry by joining Capcom the same year.
Yoko Shimomura served as the lead composer for Final Fantasy XV, writing around 80% of the soundtrack.. The musical score for the action role-playing game Final Fantasy XV, originally a spin-off game called Final Fantasy Versus XIII, was composed primarily by Yoko Shimomura, whose previous work included Parasite Eve, Legend of Mana, and the Kingdom Hearts series.
Yoko Shimomura noted she was extremely pleased with Valtonen's arrangement of Kingdom Hearts, feeling it "very colorful and beautiful, just superb really". [36] Hiroki Kikuta stated that Valtonen's arrangement "defied the framework of regular orchestra and was a very experimental attempt," resulting in "free and unbound expression". [ 37 ]
Kingdom Hearts 15 key art. Yoko Shimomura – the composer behind the Kingdom Hearts series and so much more – has been around for a while, and is well-known as one of the best composers in the ...
The game's original score was primarily composed and arranged by Yoko Shimomura, who was most widely known for her work on the Kingdom Hearts series and was a first-time composer for the Final Fantasy series. [87] Working on the greater majority of the soundtrack, Shimomura was involved throughout the game's development cycle.
The Mana series, known in Japan as Seiken Densetsu (聖剣伝説, lit."Holy Sword Legend"), is a role-playing video game series from Square Enix, created by Koichi Ishii.The series began as a handheld side story to Square's flagship franchise Final Fantasy, although most Final Fantasy-inspired elements were subsequently dropped, starting with the second installment, Secret of Mana.
Among those well-represented are Nobuo Uematsu, long-time composer of the Final Fantasy series; Masashi Hamauzu, composer of various Final Fantasy, Chocobo, and SaGa games; Yasunori Mitsuda, composer for the Chrono series and Xenogears; Kenji Ito, who composed for several SaGa and Mana games, and Yoko Shimomura, composer for the Kingdom Hearts ...
Merregnon: Land of Silence features original music by Yoko Shimomura and a story by children's author Frauke Angel. [1] This project marks Shimomura's first concert work. [ 13 ] It was first performed by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Andreas Hanson, and filmed at the Stockholm Concert Hall in June 2021.