Ikurō Fujiwara


Ikurō Fujiwara is a Japanese pianist, composer, conductor and musical producer signed under Being Inc. He is Pops Executive Producer in the Pacific Philharmonia Tokyo orchestra.
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Biography

Ikurō started learning piano and composing from an early age. He studied composition under Yoshio Hasegawa, Akira Kitamura, Hajime Kaburagi, Kiyohiko Kishima, and Tsuyoshi Yanagisawa; piano under Shihoko Uno, Kazuko Yasukawa, Michiko Jackson; conducting under Shigenobu Yamaoka and Konstantin D. Crimets. In 1976, Ikurō graduated from "Nihon University College of Art". In 1980s, his name appeared in the credit list of the various albums of the artist as arranger and keyboardist. At the beginning of 90's, he would focus his career more into composing and arranging music for the video gameseries Wizardry. In 1996, he was member of the Japanese band W's as keyboardist, composer and arranger.
From 1998, he has been active as an orchestral conductor and arranger for symphonic live series started firstly for Akina Nakamori, in the recent years by public well known for Mai Kuraki, Aska and Luna Sea. Since the 2000s, he started to release his original albums under subtitles "Densetsu" and "Eternal Animation Healing" music; composed soundtracks for number of domestic television series and theatrical movies in Shanghai, Singapore and Japan. His original works have been well received by critics.
In 2002, Ikuro's instrumental piece "Deep Sea" was used as background music for the South Korean television series Winter Sonata. He performed it 5 years later, in 2007 at Seoul Women's Plaza.
The music in the 2008's movie Painted Skin has received 2 Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Original Film Score and Best Original Film Song, and 1 nomination on Changchun Film Festival for the Best Music.
In 2020, he launched one-day live show "KURO Fujiwara New Year's Piano Live 2020 "Yuki no Hana" held in Tokyo with the vocal guests Yumi Shizukusa from the same agency. Before Shizukusa's retirement, it was marked to be her final live performance to be seen. In 2021, Ikuro released his first vocal recording song under EP title "Yokohama Star Dust" in digital format.

Discography

As of 2023, he has released 17 studio albums, 3 digital albums, 4 compilation album and 1 DVD.

Movie soundtracks compositions

Television series compositions

Game soundtracks composition

DVD

  • Fujisan Shinshō VOL. 1: Fujiwara Ikurō healing version
  • Yoshiki Symphonic Concert 2002with Tokyo City Phillharmonic Orchestra
  • Mai Kuraki Symphonic Live -Opus 1-
  • Mai Kuraki Symphonic Live -Opus 2-
  • Mai Kuraki Symphonic Live -Opus 3-
  • Ai to Yuuki no 25 Shuunen Linen Fire Emblem San
  • Piano Anthology: Melody of Luna Sea
  • Live Movie from Billboard Classics 20th Anniversary Mai Kuraki Premium Symphonic Concert 2019 - released as part of the album Unconditional Love as Limited B version with DVD disc.
  • Mai Kuraki Premium Symphonic Concert 2022
Note: Aside of Fujisan Shinshō, Ikuro is filmed and credited in the footages as a conductor and orchestral arranger.

List of contribution to artist

List of produced artist

Listed for symphonic concerts