Noriyuki Iwadare

Noriyuki Iwadare
File:Noriyuki Iwadare 20100701 Japan Expo 43.jpg Noriyuki Iwadare at Japan Expo 2010
Background information
Born	(1964-04-28) April 28, 1964 Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, Japan
Occupation(s)	Composer
Instruments	Piano, guitar
Years active	1990–present

Noriyuki Iwadare (岩垂 徳行, Iwadare Noriyuki, born on April 28, 1964) is a Japanese video game composer.

Biography

Noriyuki 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.

Discography

Compositions

• Space Invaders: Fukkatsu no Hi (1990)
• Space Invaders '90 (1990)
• Gambler Jiko Chuushinha (Mega Drive) (1990)
• Wings of Wor (1991)
• Langrisser (1991) - with Hiroshi Fujioka and Isao Mizoguchi
• Blue Almanac (1991) - with Masaru Suzuki, Yoshiaki Kubodera, Hiroshi Fujioka, and Isao Mizoguchi
• Head Buster (1991) - with Hiroshi Fujioka and Isao Mizoguchi
• Steel Empire (1992) - with Isao Mizoguchi and Yoshiaki Kubodera
• Gley Lancer (1992) - with Masanori Hikichi, Yoshiaki Kubodera, and Isao Mizoguchi
• Lunar: The Silver Star (1992) - with Hiroshi Fujioka, Isao Mizoguchi, and Yoshiaki Kubodera
• Rise of the Dragon (Mega-CD) (1992)
• Kishi Densetsu (1993) - with Isao Mizoguchi
• Maten no Soumetsu (1993) - with Isao Mizoguchi
• SimEarth (Sega CD) (1993)
• Sotsugyou: Graduation (1993)
• Langrisser: Hikari no Matsuei (1993) - with Masanori Hikichi, Hiroshi Fujioka, Isao Mizoguchi, Miyoko Takaoka, Naoyuki Ito
• Alien vs Predator: The Last of His Clan (1993)
• Langrisser II (1994) - with Isao Mizoguchi
• A/X-101 (1994)
• Wing Commander (Sega CD) (1994) - with Isao Mizoguchi, Kenichi Okuma, Masaki Tanimoto
• Lunar: Eternal Blue (1994)
• Sotsugyou II: Neo Generation (1994) - with Masaki Tanimoto, Kenichi Okuma, Isao Mizoguchi
• Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (Game Boy) (1994) - with Kenichi Okuma
• Mercurius Pretty (1994)
• Lunar: Walking School (1995)
• Der Langrisser (1995)
• Monstania (1996)
• Tanjou S: Debut (1996)
• Lunar: Silver Star Story (1996)
• Doukyuusei if (1996) - "Opening Theme"
• True Love Story (1996) - with Kenichi Okuma, Masaki Tanimoto, Ataru Sumiyoshi
• Langrisser IV (1997) - with Makoto Asai, Yuichiro Honda
• Magic School Lunar! (1997)
• Grandia (1997)
• Langrisser V: The End of Legend (1998)
• Lunar 2: Eternal Blue (1998)
• True Love Story 2 (1999)
• Yuukyuu no Eden (1999)
• Growlanser (1999)
• Grandia II (2000)
• Mercurius Pretty: End of the Century (2000)
• True Love Story 3 (2001)
• Grandia Xtreme (2002)
• Wind: A Breath of Heart (2002) - with Masaki Tanimoto
• True Love Story: Summer Days, and Yet… (2003)
• Mega Man X7 (2003) ("Higher The Air ~ Air Force Stage")
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations (2004)
• Radiata Stories (2005)
• Grandia III (2006)
• KimiKiss (2006)
• Project Wiki (2006)
• Kanji no Wataridori (2006)
• Elvandia Story (2007) - with Norihiko Hibino
• True Fortune (2008)
• Amagami (2009)
• Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (2009) - with Yasuko Yamada
• Lunar: Harmony of Silver Star (2009)
• Grandia Online (2010)
• Gyakuten Kenji 2 (2011)
• Otomedius Excellent (2011) - with various others
• Kid Icarus: Uprising (2012) - with Motoi Sakuraba, Yuzo Koshiro, Masafumi Takada, Yasunori Mitsuda, and Takahiro Nishi
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies (2013)
• Langrisser Re:Incarnation -Tensei- (2015)
• Langrisser Schwarz (TBA)

Arrangements

• After Burner II (Mega Drive) (1990)
• Granada (Mega Drive) (1990)
• Ys III: Wanderers from Ys (Mega Drive) (1991) - with Yoshiaki Kubodera
• Zero Wing (Mega Drive) (1991)
• 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)

External links

• Noriyuki Iwadare's official English website