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Browse piano sheets by Yuki Kajiura on Zen Virtual Piano. Kajiura says that when she was really thinking about having to choose between two paths, she was offered a CD deal, and that was basically the reason she became a professional musician. Until 1992 she was employed as a systems engineering programmer; then she chose to concentrate on music, and in 1993 she joined the group See-Saw with Chiaki Ishikawa. A programmer who left a steady job after a CD offer suggests a career decided by one concrete opportunity more than by long planning, and a willingness to leave a stable job for it. Tokyo, 6 August 1965, is her birth date and place; her musical life dates from 1972, when she began accompanying her father at the piano. Her father's work took the family to West Germany; before they left Japan, at seven, she composed Thank you, Good-bye, her first piece, to say farewell to her grandmother. In her younger days she says she loved listening to every kind of music, such as world music, pop, rock, techno, classical and opera, without distinguishing between genres. A girl who wrote a farewell piece at seven and later made no distinction between genres suggests that her wide listening has early roots, and that moving between countries as a child may have widened it. Of working for the Madoka Magica films, she recalls that she was always being asked to use a waltz in the battle scenes, as the familiars seem to be dancing. The track Sis puella magica! is known informally as Kyubey's sales-pitch theme, and appears on a six-track release with Credens justitiam, Mami's theme, and songs for the films and the TV series. On one project, she says, they also did film scoring so that all the music matched the timing of the animation, and after reading the script carefully she made notes on the tone and emotion of the whole work as if producing it herself. A waltz for dancing familiars and notes written after reading a script hint at a composer who builds her music around the picture it accompanies, with dance and rhythm as tools to shape a scene. She says she has collaborated only once with another composer, but works with many musicians because they give her inspiration. After contract disputes she left the agency Spacecraft Produce, confirming on Twitter in February 2018 that she had. She is now represented by FictionJunction Music, a talent agency she founded herself. For Demon Slayer: Mugen Train she and Go Shiina jointly received the 44th Japan Academy Award, taking both the music and the animated-film categories. A single collaboration with another composer, a break with an agency and then her own company hint at someone who prefers to keep control of how her music is made and managed, and who sees other musicians mainly as sources of inspiration.
Browse piano sheets by Yuki Kajiura on Zen Virtual Piano.
Kajiura says that when she was really thinking about having to choose between two paths, she was offered a CD deal, and that was basically the reason she became a professional musician. Until 1992 she was employed as a systems engineering programmer; then she chose to concentrate on music, and in 1993 she joined the group See-Saw with Chiaki Ishikawa. A programmer who left a steady job after a CD offer suggests a career decided by one concrete opportunity more than by long planning, and a willingness to leave a stable job for it.
Tokyo, 6 August 1965, is her birth date and place; her musical life dates from 1972, when she began accompanying her father at the piano. Her father's work took the family to West Germany; before they left Japan, at seven, she composed Thank you, Good-bye, her first piece, to say farewell to her grandmother. In her younger days she says she loved listening to every kind of music, such as world music, pop, rock, techno, classical and opera, without distinguishing between genres. A girl who wrote a farewell piece at seven and later made no distinction between genres suggests that her wide listening has early roots, and that moving between countries as a child may have widened it.
Of working for the Madoka Magica films, she recalls that she was always being asked to use a waltz in the battle scenes, as the familiars seem to be dancing. The track Sis puella magica! is known informally as Kyubey's sales-pitch theme, and appears on a six-track release with Credens justitiam, Mami's theme, and songs for the films and the TV series. On one project, she says, they also did film scoring so that all the music matched the timing of the animation, and after reading the script carefully she made notes on the tone and emotion of the whole work as if producing it herself. A waltz for dancing familiars and notes written after reading a script hint at a composer who builds her music around the picture it accompanies, with dance and rhythm as tools to shape a scene.
She says she has collaborated only once with another composer, but works with many musicians because they give her inspiration. After contract disputes she left the agency Spacecraft Produce, confirming on Twitter in February 2018 that she had. She is now represented by FictionJunction Music, a talent agency she founded herself. For Demon Slayer: Mugen Train she and Go Shiina jointly received the 44th Japan Academy Award, taking both the music and the animated-film categories. A single collaboration with another composer, a break with an agency and then her own company hint at someone who prefers to keep control of how her music is made and managed, and who sees other musicians mainly as sources of inspiration.
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Yuki Kajiura is a Japanese composer born in Tokyo on 6 August 1965, and a member of the group See-Saw.
It is a piece of background music from Puella Magi Madoka Magica, informally known as Kyubey's sales-pitch theme.
She shared the 44th Japan Academy Award, in the categories of best music and best animated film, for Demon Slayer: Mugen Train.
It is the talent agency Kajiura founded herself, which now represents her.