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Occupation(s)
  
Composer

Role
  
Composer

Name
  
Noriyuki Iwadare

Years active
  
1990–present

Instruments
  
Piano, guitar


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Born
  
April 28, 1964 (age 59) Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, Japan (
1964-04-28
)

Albums
  
Gyakuten Meets Orchestra, Gyakuten Meets Jazz, GRANDIA ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACKS, Gyakuten Saiban 3 Original S, Radiata Stories: Arrange

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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.

Arrangements

  • After Burner II (Mega Drive) (1990)
  • Ys III: Wanderers from Ys (Mega Drive) (1991) - with Yoshiaki Kubodera
  • Urusei Yatsura: Dear My Friends (Mega-CD) (1994)
  • Crusader of Centy (1994)
  • Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008) - with various others ("Yoshi's Island" from Yoshi's Island, "Meta Knight's Revenge" from Kirby Super Star, "With Mila's Divine Protection" from Fire Emblem Gaiden)
  • Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U (2014) - with various others ("Gear Gateway" from Donkey Kong Country Returns, "In the Space-Pirate Ship" from Kid Icarus: Uprising, "Air Man Stage" from Mega Man 2)
  • References

    Noriyuki Iwadare Wikipedia