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Yoko Shimomura
Hạ thôn dương tử
Shimomura in 2024
Born(1967-10-19)October 19, 1967(age 57)
Hyōgo Prefecture,Japan
Alma materOsaka College of Music
Occupations
  • Composer
  • pianist
Years active1988–present
Employers
Musical career
Genres
InstrumentPiano
LabelsBrave Wave Productions
Websitewww.midiplex

Yoko Shimomura(Hạ thôn dương tử,Shimomura Yōko,born October 19, 1967)is a Japanese composer and pianist primarily known for her work invideo gamessuch as theKingdom Heartsseries. She graduated from theOsaka College of Musicin 1988 and began working in thevideo game industryby joiningCapcomthe same year. She wrote music for several games there, includingFinal Fight,Street Fighter II,andThe King of Dragons.

Shimomura left Capcom and joinedSquare(nowSquare Enix) in 1993, with her first project there beingLive A Live.She would later become better known for writing the music forKingdom Hearts,which was her last game at Square before leaving to become a freelancer in 2002. Despite leaving, she has continued to work with them in laterKingdom Heartsentries and other games such asThe 3rd BirthdayandFinal Fantasy XV.

Other well-known games Shimomura has worked on includeSuper Mario RPG,theMario & Luigiseries,Parasite Eve,Legend of Mana,Radiant Historia,andXenoblade Chronicles.Her works have gained a great deal of popularity and have been performed in multiple video game music concerts. Music from several of her games have been published as arranged albums and piano scores. She is also a member of the music labelBrave Wave Productions.

Early life

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Shimomura was born on October 19, 1967, inHyōgo Prefecture,Japan.[1][2]She developed an interest for music at a young age, and started taking piano lessons "at the age of four or five".[3]She began composing her own music by playing the piano randomly and pretending to compose, eventually coming up with her own pieces, the first of which she says she still remembers how to play.[3]Shimomura attendedOsaka College of Music,and graduated as a piano major in 1988.

Upon graduation, Shimomura intended to become a piano instructor and was extended a job offer to become a piano teacher at a music store, but as she had been an avid gamer for many years she decided to send some samples of her work to various video game companies that were recruiting at the university.[4]Capcominvited her in for an audition and interview, and she was offered a job there. Her family and instructors were dismayed with her change in focus, as video game music was not well respected, and "they had paid [her] tuition for an expensive music school and couldn't understand why [she] would accept such a job", but Shimomura accepted the job at Capcom anyway.[3][4]

Career

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Shimomura in 2007

While working for Capcom, Shimomura contributed to the soundtracks of over 16 games, including the successfulStreet Fighter II,which she composed all but three pieces for. The first soundtrack she worked on at the company was forSamurai Swordin 1988.Final Fight,in 1989, was her first work to receive a separate soundtrack album release, on an album of music from several Capcom games.[5]The first soundtrack album to exclusively feature her work came a year later for the soundtrack toStreet Fighter II.[6]While she began her tenure at Capcom working on games forvideo game consoles,by 1990 she had moved to thearcade gamedivision.[1][4]She was a member of the company's in-house bandAlph Lyla,which played various Capcom game music, including pieces written by Shimomura. She performed live with the group on a few occasions, including playing piano during Alph Lyla's appearance at the 1992Game Music Festival.

In 1993, Shimomura left Capcom to join another game company,Square.She stated that the move was done because she was interested in writing "classical-style" music for fantasyrole-playing games.While working for Capcom, she was in the arcade department and was unable to transfer to the console department to work on their role-playing video game seriesBreath of Fire,although she did contribute one track to thefirst game in the series.[4]Her first project at Square was the score for therole-playing video gameLive A Livein 1994. While she was working on the score toSuper Mario RPGthe following year, she was asked to joinNoriko Matsuedaon the music to the futuristic role-playing gameFront Mission.Although she was overworked doing both scores and it was not the genre that she was interested in, she found herself unable to refuse after her first attempt to do so unexpectedly happened in the presence of the president of Square, Tetsuo Mizuno.[4]These games were followed byTobal No. 1,the last score she worked on with another composer for a decade.[1]

Over the next few years, she composed the soundtrack to several games, includingParasite EveandLegend of Mana.Of all her compositions, Shimomura considers the soundtrack toLegend of Manathe one that best expresses herself and the soundtrack remains Shimomura's personal favourite.[7][3]Parasite Eveon thePlayStationhad the first soundtrack by Shimomura that included a vocal song, as it was the first game she had written for running on a console system that had the sound capability for one.[4]In 2002 she wrote the score forKingdom Hearts,which she has said is the most "special" soundtrack to her, as well as a turning point in her career; she named the soundtracks toStreet Fighter IIandSuper Mario RPGas the other two significant points in her life as a composer.[8]

Kingdom Heartswas wildly successful, shipping more than four million copies worldwide;[9]Shimomura's music was frequently cited as one of the highlights of the game, and the title track has been ranked as the fourth-best role-playing game title track of all time.[10][11]The soundtrack has led to two albums of piano arrangements.[8]Kingdom Heartswas the last soundtrack that she worked on at Square. After the release ofKingdom Heartsin 2002, Shimomura left Square formaternity leave,and began work as a freelancer in 2003.[12]She has built on the work she did while at Square; since leaving she has composed or is composing music for elevenKingdom Heartsgames andNintendo'sMario & Luigiseries.She has also worked on many other projects, such asHeroes of Manaand various arranged albums.[1]In February 2014, Shimomura played piano at a retrospective 25th anniversary concert at Tokyo FM Hall.[13]She performed songs from games such asKingdom Hearts,Live a Live,andStreet Fighter II.During theBeware the Forest's Mushroomsperformance fromSuper Mario RPG,Shimomura was joined onstage by fellow composerYasunori Mitsuda,who played theIrish bouzouki.[13]She most recently composed and produced the majority of the score forFinal Fantasy XV,which she began writing for in 2006, a decade before the game was released.[14]She is also a member of the music labelBrave Wave Productions.[15]

Legacy

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Shimomura has been cited as one of the most well-known video game music composers.[7][8]Shimomura's best works compilation album, titledDrammatica: The Very Best of Yoko Shimomura,was released in March 2008. The album contains compositions fromKingdom Heartsand many other games she worked on in full orchestration, with Shimomura stating that she chose music that was popular among fans and well-suited for orchestration, but had never been performed by an orchestra before.[16]In a 2008 interview withMusic4Gamesregarding the project, Shimomura commented that with the sheet music generated for the project, she would be interested in pursuing a live performance ofDrammaticafor fans if the opportunity arose.[16]In March 2009, that wish was realized when it was announced thatArnie Rothwould conduct theRoyal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestraat the concert Sinfonia Drammatica in theStockholm Concert Hall,which would combine music from the album with performances ofChris Hülsbeck's Symphonic Shades concert. The concert took place in August 2009.[17]In March 2007, Shimomura released her first non-video game album,Murmur,an album of vocal songs sung byChata.[8]

Shimomura's music forKingdom Heartsmade up one fourth of the music of the Symphonic Fantasies concerts in September 2009, which were produced by the creators of theSymphonic Game Music Concertseries and conducted byArnie Roth.[18]Legend of Mana's title theme was also performed by the AustralianEminence Symphony Orchestrafor its classical gaming music concertA Night in Fantasia 2007.[19]

Music from the original soundtrack ofLegend of Manawas arranged for the piano and published by DOREMI Music Publishing. Two compilation books of music from the series have also been published asSeiken Densetsu Best Collection Piano Solo Sheet Musicfirst and second editions, with the second including Shimomura's tracks fromLegend of Mana.All songs in each book have been rewritten by Asako Niwa as beginning to intermediate level piano solos, though they are meant to sound as much like the originals as possible.[20]Additionally, piano sheet music fromKingdom HeartsandKingdom Hearts IIhas been published as music books by Yamaha Music Media.[21]

Shimomura's first dedicated concert performance outside Japan was held at the Salle Cortot in Paris in November 2015.[22]Later that same month, she performed at the El Plaza Condesa in Mexico City.[23]In September 2016, some of her music forFinal Fantasy XVwas performed by theLondon Philharmonic OrchestraatAbbey Road StudiosinLondon,as well as inBoston,with Shimomura herself performing on piano.[24][14]Shimomura composed for the concert workMerregnon: Land of Silence.[25]Her work was performed by theRoyal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestraand filmed at theStockholm Concert Hallin 2021, with more performances in other locations starting in 2022.[26][27]She was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2024Game Developers Choice Awards.[28]

Musical style and influences

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Shimomura listsLudwig van Beethoven,Frédéric Chopin,andMaurice Ravelas some of her influences on her personal website.[1]She has also stated that she has enjoyed "lounge-style jazz" for a long time.[4]Despite these influences and her classical training, the diverse musical styles that she has used throughout her career and sometimes in the same soundtrack include "rock,electronica,oriental,ambient,industrial,pop, symphonic, operatic,chiptune,and more ".[7][3]She draws inspiration for her songs from things in her life that move her emotionally, which she describes as "a beautiful picture, scenery, tasting something delicious, scents that bring back memories, happy and sad things... Anything that moves my emotion gives me inspiration".[3]Shimomura has also stated that she comes up with most of her songs when she is doing something that is "not part of [her] daily routine, like traveling."[3]Although her influences are mostly classical, she has said that in her opinion her "style has changed dramatically over the years, though the passion for music stays the same."[4]Shimomura has said that she believes that an important part of "the creative process behind music" is to "convey a subtle message, something that comes from your imagination and sticks with the listener, without being overly specific about what it means", rather than only writing simple themes with obvious messages.[4]She stated her favorite composition was "Dearly Beloved" fromKingdom Hearts.[8]

Works

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Video games

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Composition

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Video game compositions
Year Title Notes Ref.
1988 Samurai Sword [3]
1989 Final Fight "Round 5: Bay Area 2 & 3" [3]
1990 Code Name: Viper All tracks except Stage 1 by Junko Tamiya (uncredited) [29]
Gargoyle's Quest WithHarumi Fujita(uncredited) [3]
Adventures in the Magic Kingdom [3]
Mizushima Shinji no Daikoushien [30]
Nemo [3]
Mahjong School: The Super O Version With Masaki Izutani (uncredited) [30]
1991 Street Fighter II With Isao Abe [4]
The King of Dragons [3]
Block Block With Masaki Izutani [30]
1992 Varth: Operation Thunderstorm "Bonus Stage" [3]
1993 Breath of Fire "Trade City" [4]
The Punisher With Isao Abe [3]
1994 Live A Live [3]
1995 Front Mission WithNoriko Matsueda [3]
1996 Super Mario RPG [3]
Tobal No. 1 With several others [1]
1998 Parasite Eve [3]
1999 Legend of Mana [31]
2000 Hataraku Chocobo [3]
2002 Kingdom Hearts [3]
2003 Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga [8]
2004 Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories [3]
2005 Pop'n Music 13 Carnival "Majestic Fire" [32]
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time [8]
Kingdom Hearts II [8]
2006 Monster Kingdom: Jewel Summoner With several others [3]
2007 Heroes of Mana [1]
Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories [8]
2008 Luminous Arc 2 WithAkari Kaida,Yoshino Aoki,and Shunsuke Nakamura [33]
2009 Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story [8]
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days [8]
Pop'n Music 17 The Movie "Twin Hero - Oath to Tomorrow" [32]
2010 Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep WithTsuyoshi SekitoandTakeharu Ishimoto [8]
Kingdom Hearts coded [34]
Xenoblade Chronicles With Manami Kiyota and ACE+[a] [35]
Last Ranker [8]
Kingdom Hearts Re:coded [34]
Radiant Historia [36]
The 3rd Birthday With Tsuyoshi Sekito and Mitsuto Suzuki [8]
2011 Half-Minute Hero: The Second Coming "Battle of the God 9"
2012 Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance With Tsuyoshi Sekito and Takeharu Ishimoto [37]
Demons' Score "Azazel del cielo ardiente" [38]
2013 Mario & Luigi: Dream Team [39]
Kingdom Hearts χ [40]
Exstetra "Main Theme" [41]
2014 Rise of Mana "Where the Heart Beats Free"
Terra Battle Two tracks [42]
V.D. -Vanishment Day- [43]
2015 Chronos Ring WithKenji ItoandEvan Call [44]
Chunithm: Seelisch Tact "Tango Rouge" [45]
Kakuriyo no Mon "Ihou no Shugosha" [46]
Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam [47]
2016 The Alchemist Code With Shinya Tanaka and Shigeki Hayashi [48]
Black Knight and White Devil With Shota Kageyama [49]
Final Fantasy XV WithTetsuya Shibata,Yoshino Aoki,and Yoshitaka Suzuki [14]
2017 Kingdom Hearts 0.2: Birth by Sleep – A Fragmentary Passage [50]
Magicians Dead Next Blazing With Masato Kouda and Makoto Iida [51]
Egglia: Legend of the Red Cap WithYoshitaka Hirota [52][53]
Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology [54]
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions [55]
2018 Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey [56]
2019 Kingdom Hearts III With Tsuyoshi Sekito and Takeharu Ishimoto [57]
Rakugaki Kingdom "Yume to Gensou no Enbukyoku" [58]
Renshin Astral Paris battle themes [59]
2020 Streets of Rage 4 "Shiva" [60]
2021 Gran Saga [61]
Xuan-Yuan Sword VII "Mohism" [62]
2022 Sin Chronicle "La Giustizia" [63]
Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope WithGrant KirkhopeandGareth Coker [64]
2024 Reynatis [65]
TBA Kingdom Hearts IV [66]

Arrangements

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Video game arrangements
Year Title Notes Ref.
1989 F-1 Dream Original music byManami Matsumae [3]
1991 Buster Bros. Original music byTamayo Kawamoto [67]
2008 Super Smash Bros. Brawl "Tetris:Type A ","Gritzy Desert",and"King Dedede's Theme " [68]
2009 Little King's Story Maurice Ravel'sBoléro [69]
2013 Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix Orchestrations [70]
2014 Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U "Magicant / Eight Melodies","Try, Try Again","Route 10",and"Ryu Stage" [71]
Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix Arrangements, orchestrations
2018 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate "Kass' Theme","Vega Stage","Treasure Trove Cove","Pasta","Dance of the Blocks","Cosmo Canyon","Moonsiders 1st",and"Hand in Hand" [72][73]
2020 The Wonderful 101: Remastered With several others [74]
Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory Arrangements [75]
2022 Live A Live HD-2D Remake Arrangements [76]
2023 Super Mario RPG Arrangements [77]

Other works

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Other works
Year Title Notes Ref.
1989 G.S.M. 1500 series ~ Sweet Home Arranged two tracks
1992 Captain Commando-G.S.M. Capcom 5 WithAlph Lyla
Game Music Festival ~Super Live '92~ With Alph Lyla
1993 Street Fighter II Collector's Box With Alph Lyla
1998 Parasite Eve Remixes With several others
2004 Dan Doh!! Anime [3]
Phantasy Star Online Episode I & IIPremium Arrange With several others [78]
Dark ChroniclePremium Arrange [79]
2005 Best Student Council Anime [3]
2006 Rogue GalaxyPremium Arrange With several others [3]
2007 Murmur Original album, with lyrics and vocals byChata [8]
2008 Drammatica: The Very Best of Yoko Shimomura [16]
2009 MushihimesamaDouble Arrange Album with several others [80]
2010 GeOnDan Rare Tracks Ver. 2.0 with several others
2011 GeOnDan Super Rare Trax: The LAND of RISING SUN with several others
2012 GO! GO! Buriki Daioh!! with several others
2013 X'mas Collections II with several others [81]
2014 memória! ~ The Very Best of Yoko Shimomura [82]
Game Music Prayer II with several others [83]
2017 Napping Princess Anime [84]
2018 High Score Girl Anime [84]
2019 Ladderless original album byOldcodex,composed "Deeply Mind" [85]
? Composed "Nocturne"; tribute album toXXXTentacion [86]
2020 YuchoPay Original Image Song #TOKIWOMEKURUYUBI [87]
2021 Merregnon: Land of Silence Concert [88]
2022 Legend of Mana: The Teardrop Crystal Anime [89]
2024 Mahō Tsukai ni Narenakatta Onna no Ko no Hanashi Anime [90]

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