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• TOSHIYUKI WATANABE

  Toshiyuki Watanabe was born in Aichi Nagoya on February 3, 1955; he is a Japanese composer, arranger and also record producer  In 1973, he started professional career as a member of Akai tori that is well-known band at that time in Japan. In 1974, Akai-tori disbanded and he became a record producer and arranger for the singer Masashi Sada who used to belong to the same company. He produced a lot of hit songs, such as "Kakashi" and "Amayadori". In 1979, he entered Berkley College of Music in Boston and studied techniques for composing and arranging in classical music and jazz. And he studied orchestration with Dr. Albert Harris in L.A.. After coming back to Japan, he started his career as a composer for movies and TV series in earnest while working with Masashi Sada as a record producer.  In recent years, he dealt with music for Japanese immortal masterpieces, such as year-long historical fiction drama series "Mori Motonari" (1977) and "Toshiie to Matsu" (2002), TV drama series "Non chan no yume" (1988), "Karin" (1993), "Dondo hare" (2007), "Ohisama" (2011) etc. on Japan's national public broadcasting organization, NHK. As for cartoons, his music was used in "Ginga Hyoryu Vaifamu" (1983), "Musekinin Kancho Taira" (1995), "Space Brothers" (2012), "Ginga Kikoutai Majestic Prince" and so on.    He is also an educator. In 2010, he became a professor of music and sound design at Senzoku Gakuen College of Music.   He teaches the techniques of composition and arrangement for pop songs and soundtracks as a project director at the music and sound design course.   His motto at work is "giving energy to warm gentle minds among people and positive feelings that people carry on through their music." The musician, Toshiyuki Watanabe shall keep producing music to give courage and hopes to people in the world.

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