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Yugo Kanno
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Browse piano sheets by Yugo Kanno on Zen Virtual Piano. Yugo Kanno composes for television, film and animation, and he is also deeply committed to bringing orchestral music to live audiences. AllMusic calls him one of Japan’s leading figures in scoring animated films for television and cinema. Music heard under pictures and music heard live in a hall sit side by side in his career. He began studying piano at the age of four and grew up listening to jazz and classical music, influenced by his father, an avid audiophile. In 1997 he entered the composition department of Tokyo College of Music, began providing songs to artists while still a student, and after graduating made commercial sound logos for Morinaga, Shin Biofermin S and Hoyu. In 2004, at 27, he made his debut scoring a drama, Fuji TV’s Monday 9 o’clock drama “Last Christmas.” A first drama score at 27, after commercial sound logos, shows a composer widening the kinds of work he took on. His anime work includes JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders and Diamond Is Unbreakable, Psycho-Pass, Gundam Reconguista in G, Batman Ninja and Cells at Work! Sound logos, drama scores and anime series are among the many formats his work covers. AllMusic says his best-known work has an energetic attack combining pop, rock and electronic elements, a good match for the action-packed visuals of the Netflix series Pluto and the screen adaptation of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. A style fitted to action visuals suggests music conceived in step with the pictures it accompanies. In 2010 he received the Best Film Music Artist Award at the Japan Movie Critics Awards and the Best Music Award at the Japan Theater Staff Film Festival for his score for the film Amalfi: Megami no Hōshū. A critics’ award for a film score alongside action-anime credits suggests range across kinds of picture. Alongside this work for screens he runs another strand of musical activity, orchestral concerts begun from a strong wish for people to hear live music. Since his first orchestral concert in the Blue Rose room of Suntory Hall in 2007, he has held concerts almost every year. There are few chances to hear the music of dramas and films performed live, and he has stayed committed to the orchestra. Concerts held almost every year since 2007 make the orchestra a lasting strand of his work. Carrying screen music into a concert hall turns background sound into the main event. Large-scale concert activity went dormant during the pandemic, and he resumed orchestral concerts in March 2024 at Hokutopia. In 2023 he made his directorial debut with the film DAUGHTER.
Browse piano sheets by Yugo Kanno on Zen Virtual Piano.
Yugo Kanno composes for television, film and animation, and he is also deeply committed to bringing orchestral music to live audiences. AllMusic calls him one of Japan’s leading figures in scoring animated films for television and cinema. Music heard under pictures and music heard live in a hall sit side by side in his career.
He began studying piano at the age of four and grew up listening to jazz and classical music, influenced by his father, an avid audiophile. In 1997 he entered the composition department of Tokyo College of Music, began providing songs to artists while still a student, and after graduating made commercial sound logos for Morinaga, Shin Biofermin S and Hoyu. In 2004, at 27, he made his debut scoring a drama, Fuji TV’s Monday 9 o’clock drama “Last Christmas.” A first drama score at 27, after commercial sound logos, shows a composer widening the kinds of work he took on. His anime work includes JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders and Diamond Is Unbreakable, Psycho-Pass, Gundam Reconguista in G, Batman Ninja and Cells at Work! Sound logos, drama scores and anime series are among the many formats his work covers.
AllMusic says his best-known work has an energetic attack combining pop, rock and electronic elements, a good match for the action-packed visuals of the Netflix series Pluto and the screen adaptation of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. A style fitted to action visuals suggests music conceived in step with the pictures it accompanies. In 2010 he received the Best Film Music Artist Award at the Japan Movie Critics Awards and the Best Music Award at the Japan Theater Staff Film Festival for his score for the film Amalfi: Megami no Hōshū. A critics’ award for a film score alongside action-anime credits suggests range across kinds of picture.
Alongside this work for screens he runs another strand of musical activity, orchestral concerts begun from a strong wish for people to hear live music. Since his first orchestral concert in the Blue Rose room of Suntory Hall in 2007, he has held concerts almost every year. There are few chances to hear the music of dramas and films performed live, and he has stayed committed to the orchestra. Concerts held almost every year since 2007 make the orchestra a lasting strand of his work. Carrying screen music into a concert hall turns background sound into the main event. Large-scale concert activity went dormant during the pandemic, and he resumed orchestral concerts in March 2024 at Hokutopia. In 2023 he made his directorial debut with the film DAUGHTER.
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Drama, film, animation and documentary, including anime such as JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders and Diamond Is Unbreakable, Psycho-Pass, Gundam Reconguista in G, Batman Ninja and Cells at Work!
His first orchestral concert was in the Blue Rose room of Suntory Hall in 2007, and he has held concerts almost every year since, with a strong wish for people to hear live music.
In 2010 he received the Best Film Music Artist Award at the Japan Movie Critics Awards and the Best Music Award at the Japan Theater Staff Film Festival for his score for the film Amalfi: Megami no Hōshū.
