(1971-02-28) February 28, 1971 (age 53) Kyoto, Japan
Genres
Ambient, video game music
Occupation(s)
Composer, arranger
Instrument(s)
Piano, electronic organ
Years active
1992–present
Musical artist
Junya Nakano (仲野 順也, Nakano Jun'ya, born February 28, 1971) is a Japanese video game composer. After working for Konami in the early 1990s, he was employed by Squaresoft and then Square Enix from 1995 to 2009. He is best known for scoring Threads of Fate and co-composing Final Fantasy X for Squaresoft, arranging for Dawn of Mana and the Nintendo DS version of Final Fantasy IV for Square Enix, and scoring arcade video games such as X-Men and Mystic Warriors for Konami. Nakano has collaborated with Masashi Hamauzu on a number of games.
He was introduced to music at the age of three when his parents offered him lessons in the electronic organ. After studying composition and arrangement at a vocational school, Nakano worked for Konami from 1991 to 1994, where he scored numerous arcade games. Nakano is noted for his ambient style and for using percussion, timbre, and rhythm in his compositions.
JunyaNakano (仲野 順也, Nakano Jun'ya, born February 28, 1971) is a Japanese video game composer. After working for Konami in the early 1990s, he was employed...
Mysterious Dungeon. He has collaborated with friend and fellow composer JunyaNakano on several games. After Nobuo Uematsu left Square Enix in 2004, Hamauzu...
regular series composer Nobuo Uematsu, along with Masashi Hamauzu and JunyaNakano. It was the first title in the main Final Fantasy series in which Uematsu...
main series not entirely scored by Nobuo Uematsu; Masashi Hamauzu and JunyaNakano were signed as Uematsu's fellow composers. Final Fantasy X was both a...
uninspired, Uematsu requested the assistance of composers Masashi Hamauzu and JunyaNakano for the score to Final Fantasy X in 2001. This marked the first time...
SaGa Frontier 2, Tobal No. 1, Final Fantasy X (with Nobuo Uematsu and JunyaNakano), Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIII-2, Final Fantasy VII Remake...
on a world design by Makoto Shimamoto, and the music was composed by JunyaNakano. The game received generally positive reviews for its combat and graphics...
Kenichiro Fukui, JunyaNakano, and Masashi Hamauzu; she joined the composer's group GE-ON-DAN with many other composers like Nakano. In 2011, she became...
screenwriter, and producer 1970 – Noureddine Morceli, Algerian runner 1971 – JunyaNakano, Japanese pianist and composer 1971 – Tasha Smith, American actress,...
Vendetta Music 1992 Asterix Music with Mutsuhiko Izumi, Mariko Egawa, JunyaNakano, Ayako Nishigaki 1993 Rocket Knight Adventures Music with Masanori Oouchi...
Front Mission: Gun Hazard Music with Nobuo Uematsu, Masashi Hamauzu, and JunyaNakano Tobal No. 1 Music with several others 1998 Xenogears Music Mario Party...
is titled "Konami Kukeiha Club Live in Tōkyō." Aki Hata Akira Yamaoka JunyaNakano Kenichiro Fukui Kinuyo Yamashita Michiru Yamane Miki Higashino Naoki...
and Masayoshi Soken Project Sylpheed (2006) – with Takahiro Nishi, JunyaNakano, Kumi Tanioka, and Keigo Ozaki Lord of Arcana (2010) – with Nobuo Uematsu...
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