Yoko Shimomura (下村 陽子, Shimomura Y?ko, born October 19, 1967) is a Japanese video game composer. She has been described as "the most famous female video game music c . .   Expand    Wikipedia

Yoko Shimomura (下村 陽子, Shimomura Y?ko, born October 19, 1967) is a Japanese video game composer. She has been described as "the most famous female video game music composer in the world". She has worked in the video game music industry since graduating from Osaka College of Music in 1988. From then until 1993, she worked for Capcom, where she composed wholly or in part the scores for 15 games, including Final Fight and Street Fighter II. From 1993 to 2002 Shimomura worked for Square (now Square Enix), where she composed for a further eight games, including the popular Legend of Mana and Kingdom Hearts games. Since then she has worked as a freelance composer, writing for over a dozen titles. Her works have gained a great deal of popularity, and have been performed in multiple video game music concerts, including one, Sinfonia Drammatica, that was focused half on her "greatest hits" album, Drammatica: The Very Best of Yoko Shimomura, and half on the music of a previous concert. Music from several of her games has been published as arranged albums and as piano scores. Yoko Shimomura was born in Hy?go Prefecture, Japan on October 19, 1967. She developed an interest for music at a young age, and started taking piano lessons "at the age of four or five". She began composing her own music by playing the piano randomly and pretending to compose, eventually coming up with her own pieces, the first of which she claims to still remember how to play. Shimomura attended Osaka College of Music, and graduated as a piano major in 1988. Upon graduation, Shimomura intended to become a piano instructor and was extended a job offer to become a piano teacher at a music store, but as she had been an avid gamer for many years she decided to send some samples of her work to various video game companies that were recruiting at the university. Capcom invited her in for an audition and interview, and she was offered a job there. Her family and instructors were dismayed with her change in focus, as video game music was not well respected, and "they had paid tuition for an expensive music school and couldn't understand why I would accept such a job", but Shimomura accepted the job at Capcom anyway.

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