Occupation(s) Composer Role Composer Name Noriyuki Iwadare | Years active 1990–present Instruments Piano, guitar | |
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Albums Gyakuten Meets Orchestra, Gyakuten Meets Jazz, GRANDIA ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACKS, Gyakuten Saiban 3 Original S, Radiata Stories: Arrange Similar People Motoi Sakuraba, Yuzo Koshiro, Akemi Kimura, Toshihiko Horiyama, Shu Takumi | ||
Noriyuki Iwadare - Ensemble II
Noriyuki Iwadare - Ensemble 3
Noriyuki Iwadare (岩垂 徳行, Iwadare Noriyuki, born on April 28, 1964) is a Japanese video game composer.
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Biography
Iwadare was born in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. He began to compose video game music after years of being involved with university bands. The first award he won the Best Game Music award, the Mega Drive/Genesis category for Lunar: The Silver Star in 1991. He also won the Best Game Music award in the Sega Saturn Music category for Grandia in 1997 and in the Dreamcast category for Grandia 2 in 2000. Iwadare first composed music for Tokyo Disney Resort, in addition to Japanese dance programs, television programs, and radio programs. He dreams to have orchestral arrangements of his musical works, while he himself has done several times, as with the Gyakuten Meets Orchestra arrangements (orchestral arrangements of the Ace Attorney series music).
He was a special guest at the 11th French Japan Expo that was held on July 2010 in Paris, France.