is a Japanese composer of

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, singer, and video game

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. He has composed music for various games produced by

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, including ''

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'' and ''

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''. He first gained major recognition after the release of ''

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'', for which he had written all music and personally sang all vocals. With the arcade games, ''

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'', ''

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'' and '' Star Horse'', he also recorded live orchestras. Aside from original compositions, he also arranges, provides vocals, and is a performer for a variety of projects, including S.S.T from 1988 to 1993, and .from 2004 onwards. He is well-known voicing the character Kage-Maru of ''

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'' franchise. He has a younger brother named , who is a manga artist and member of the artist-writer duo Ark Performance along with Kōichi Ishikawa.

Works

Video games

Voice acting

Concerts

Mitsuyoshi's music from ''Shenmue'' was performed live at the first ''

Symphonic Game Music Concert The ''Symphonic Game Music Concerts (''shortened to: ''Game Concerts'') are a series of award-winning orchestral video game music concerts first performed in 2003 at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Germany, notable for being the longest running and the ...

'' in

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, Germany, in 2003. It was the first time that a concert featuring video game music was held outside Japan.Symphonic Game Music Concerts
The Concert Programs
Mitsuyoshi attended the world-premiere of ''

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'' at the Rosemont Theater in

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, in May 2006. His music from the ''Shenmue'' series was performed by a full symphony orchestra. This event drew nearly 4000 attendees. In 2007, his music from the ''

'' series was presented at the fifth ''Symphonic Game Music Concert''. Takenobu Mitsuyoshi joined the choir during the performance. For ''

Symphonic Shades – Hülsbeck in Concert ''Symphonic Shades: Hülsbeck in Concert'' was a symphonic tribute concert held twice in Cologne, Germany on 23 August 2008 featuring video game music. The concert was held in honor of the German-born video-game composer Chris Hülsbeck, and fe ...

'' in 2008, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi arranged music from '' Apidya'', by German composer

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. The event was performed by the WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne in

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, Germany, and marked the first live radio broadcast of a video game music concert.Symphonic Shades
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/ref> His first dinner show was scheduled for March 22, 2020, but was postponed to August 23 of that year due to the

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, and then rescheduled again to January 24, 2021, due to the spread of the second wave of infection. He did an online dinner show livestream on August 23, 2020, to make room for the reschedule.

References

External links

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Composer profile
at

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