Yoshihisa Hirano

This article is about the composer. For the baseball player, see Yoshihisa Hirano (baseball).
Yoshihisa Hirano
Native name 平野義久
Born (1971-12-07) December 7, 1971
Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
Occupation(s) Composer

Yoshihisa Hirano (平野 義久 Hirano Yoshihisa, born December 7, 1971 in Wakayama Prefecture) is a Japanese composer.[1]

Biography

Yoshihisa Hirano studied composing at Juilliard School in 1992, and later at Eastman School of Music. Some of the awards he has received include first prize in the Axia Tape Competition in Japan during his high school years and New York's New Music for Young Ensembles. He has composed music for concert, dance, film and radio with compositions ranging from classical to pop and contemporary music. In recent years he has composed a number of anime soundtracks.[2] He has also made music for Tokyo DisneySea's 2002 and 2004 countdown celebrations.

Hirano has paired with pianist Masako Hosoda to form the unit Bleu and released two albums. He is also responsible for some of the orchestration and arrangement for a number of Ali Project's albums.

Works

Yoshihisa Hirano has participated in the making of the soundtracks from the following anime works:

2001
2002
2003
2004
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014

References

  1. ↑ "College of Arts & Communications". University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Archived from the original on June 2, 2010. Retrieved 1 November 2010.
  2. ↑ "Official 2010 Winter Anime Preview: Headless Bikers, Pantsu and Breast Feeding". Otaka Review.net. January 2, 2010. Retrieved 1 November 2010.



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