is a Japanese pianist, composer, conductor and musical producer signed under Being Inc. He is Pops Executive Producer in the Pacific Philharmonia Tokyo orchestra.

Biography

Ikurō started learning piano and composing from an early age. He studied composition under Yoshio Hasegawa, Akira Kitamura, Hajime Kaburagi, Kiyohiko Kishima, and Tsuyoshi Yanagisawa; piano under Shihoko Uno, Kazuko Yasukawa, Michiko Jackson; conducting under Shigenobu Yamaoka and Konstantin D. Crimets. In 1976, Ikurō graduated from "Nihon University College of Art". In 1980s, his name appeared in the credit list of the various albums of the artist as arranger and keyboardist. At the beginning of 90's, he would focus his career more into composing and arranging music for the video gameseries

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. In 1996, he was member of the Japanese band W's as keyboardist, composer and arranger. From 1998, he has been active as an orchestral conductor and arranger for symphonic live series started firstly for

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, in the recent years by public well known for Mai Kuraki, Aska and

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. Since the 2000s, he started to release his original albums under subtitles "Densetsu" and "Eternal Animation Healing" music; composed soundtracks for number of domestic television series and theatrical movies in Shanghai, Singapore and Japan. His original works have been well received by critics. In 2002, Ikuro's instrumental piece "Deep Sea" was used as background music for the South Korean television series

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. He performed it 5 years later, in 2007 at Seoul Women's Plaza. The music in the 2008's movie Painted Skin has received 2

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s for Best Original Film Score and Best Original Film Song (as for the first time in the history of Japanese music), and 1 nomination on

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for the Best Music. In 2020, he launched one-day live show "KURO Fujiwara New Year's Piano Live 2020 "Yuki no Hana" held in Tokyo with the vocal guests Yumi Shizukusa from the same agency. Before Shizukusa's retirement, it was marked to be her final live performance to be seen. In 2021, Ikuro released his first vocal recording song under EP title "Yokohama Star Dust" in digital format.

Discography

As of 2023, he has released 17 studio albums, 3 digital albums, 4 compilation album and 1 DVD.

Studio albums

Compilation albums

Digital EP

Movie soundtracks compositions

*Dear Friends (2007) * Painted Skin (2008) * Yatterman (2009) *Nisesatsu (2009) *Omuraisu (2012) * Legend of the Naga Pearls (2017) *

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(2022)

Television series compositions

*69 sixty nine (2004) *Curtain Call (2004) *Itoshii Kimi he (愛し君へ) (2004) * Onaji Tsuki wo Miteiru (同じ月を見ている) (2005) *

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(2011-2012) *

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(2016)

Game soundtracks composition

*Wizardry: The First Episode - Suffering of the Queen (Game Boy,1991) *Wizardry: The Second Episode - Curse of the Ancient Emperor (Game Boy,1992) *Wizardry: The Third Episode - Scripture of the Dark (Game Boy,1993) *

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: Toko Muyo (Sega Saturn,1997) *Wizardry Dimguil Original Sound Track (1998) *Dog of Bay (PlayStation 2, 2000)

DVD

*Fujisan Shinshō VOL. 1: Fujiwara Ikurō healing version (富士山心象 VOL.1 藤原いくろうヒーリング・バージョン) (2002) *Yoshiki Symphonic Concert 2002with Tokyo City Phillharmonic Orchestra (2002) *Mai Kuraki Symphonic Live -Opus 1- (2013) *Mai Kuraki Symphonic Live -Opus 2- (2014) *Mai Kuraki Symphonic Live -Opus 3- (2015) *Ai to Yuuki no 25 Shuunen Linen Fire Emblem San (愛と勇気の25周年記念ファイアーエムブレム祭) (2016) *Piano Anthology: Melody of Luna Sea (2016) *Live Movie from Billboard Classics 20th Anniversary Mai Kuraki Premium Symphonic Concert 2019 (2021) - released as part of the album Unconditional Love as Limited B version with DVD disc. *Mai Kuraki Premium Symphonic Concert 2022 (2023) Note: Aside of Fujisan Shinshō, Ikuro is filmed and credited in the footages as a conductor and orchestral arranger.

List of contribution to artist

* Yoshie Kashiwabara *

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* Kaori Kozai *Marcia Kazue Otsuru * Mai Kuraki * Mariko Tone * Hiroko Moriguchi *

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* Hiroko Kasahara * Hiroko Kurumizawa *

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List of produced artist

Listed for symphonic concerts *Akina Nakamori (1998) *Asato Shizuki (2001) * Mayo Okamoto (2001) * Yoshiki (2002) * Miki Imai (2004) * Aska (2005, 2008, 2018, 2022) * Kirito (2006) *

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(2006) * Ayaka Hirahara (2007) * Ichirou Mizuki (2009) *

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(2010) *Mai Kuraki (2012, 2014, 2015, 2022, 2023) *Luna Sea (2015) *

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(2022) *

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(2022) *

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(2023) *

Hitomi Yaida is a Japanese pop/folk rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. She often goes by the nickname Yaiko. Yaida is an established musical artist in Japan and has also had minor club hits in the United Kingdom. Career 2000 Born in Toyonaka, Osaka, ...

(2023)

References

External links

Official website

Official Blog site (webarchived)

Official Youtube Channel

Official Weibo account

IMDB profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fujiwara, Ikuro 1970 births 20th-century Japanese composers 20th-century Japanese conductors (music) 20th-century Japanese male musicians 21st-century Japanese composers 21st-century Japanese conductors (music) 21st-century Japanese male musicians B Zone artists Japanese composers Japanese keyboardists Japanese male composers Japanese male conductors (music) Living people Musicians from Kanagawa Prefecture