is a Japanese

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

and

arranger In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition. Differences from the original composition may include reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or formal development. Arranging differs from orches ...

. Much of her work is for video games and anime.

Biography

Iuchi was born in

Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui h ...

. She learned piano and percussion from a young age. As a high school student, she performed as a drummer in various bands. She graduated from the music design program at the

Kunitachi College of Music The is a private music conservatory in Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1926 as the Tokyo Conservatory of Music, Kunitachi now offers study programs in performance, music education, composition, computer music, and musicology, for bachelor ...

and began her career working for video game hardware and software company

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. In 2002, she left SNK to work for music production group I've as an

outsource Outsourcing is an agreement in which one company hires another company to be responsible for a planned or existing activity which otherwise is or could be carried out internally, i.e. in-house, and sometimes involves transferring employees and ...

affiliate. In 2013 she became a full time employee at I've. In 2017 she retired from her full time position at the company but remained as a partner. As a composer, she has written music for many video games and anime series including the ''

A Certain Magical Index is a Japanese light novel series written by Kazuma Kamachi and illustrated by Kiyotaka Haimura, which has been published by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko imprint since April 2004 in a total of three sepa ...

'' series, ''

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'' series, ''

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'' series, and '' Rewrite''.

Discography

Game works

Anime works

References

External links

*
Maiko Iuchi's I've Sound Profile

Discography at VGMdb
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Iuchi, Maiko Anime composers Japanese composers Japanese women composers Japanese women musicians Japanese music arrangers Living people Video game composers Musicians from Hiroshima Year of birth missing (living people)