is a Japanese-American
composer
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and
conductor. His works have spanned the concert stage,
film
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s,
television
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,
video game
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s, and
advertising campaigns
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.
Early life
Furukawa was born in
Tokyo
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,
Japan
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, and raised in the suburbs of
Los Angeles
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after moving to the
United States
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at the age of three. As a child, he studied the
piano
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, then, later on, the
viola
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. Furukawa was inspired to pursue composition after seeing ''
Jurassic Park
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'' and hearing
John Williams
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' score,
and his parents, although non-musical themselves, accorded him to a very privileged music education.
Career
In 2016, Furukawa composed the score for
Fumito Ueda
is a Japanese video game designer. Ueda is best known as the director and lead designer of '' Ico'' (2001) and ''Shadow of the Colossus'' (2005) while leading Team Ico at Japan Studio, and ''The Last Guardian'' (2016) through his own development ...
's ''
The Last Guardian
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''. The performance of the soundtrack was conducted by Furukawa with the
London Symphony Orchestra
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, the
Trinity Boys Choir, and
London Voices
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, and was recorded at
Lyndhurst Hall.
[Kerr, Chris]
"Q&A: Weaving together ''The Last Guardian''s emotional score"
''Gamasutra
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'', 8 December 2016 On February 16, 2023 it was confirmed that Takeshi Furukawa was attached to the
Upcoming live action ''Avatar the Last Airbender'' project as its composer.
Works
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21st-century American conductors (music)
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Japanese male conductors (music)
Japanese film score composers
Japanese male film score composers
Japanese television composers
Living people
Male television composers
Video game composers