Michiru Yamane

Michiru Yamane
Born	September 23, 1963 Kagawa Prefecture, Japan[1]
Genres	Classical
Occupations	Composer, musician
Instruments	Piano
Years active	1988–present

Michiru Yamane (山根 ミチル, Yamane Michiru^?, born 1963) is a Japanese video game composer and musician. She is known primarily for her work on the Castlevania series and other Konami games, including Suikoden. Her debut composition was Twinbee (prequel of the released Stinger in the United States). She left Konami in 2008 and became an independent music composer.

Concerts

Michiru Yamane performed her music from the Castlevania series live on cembalo and - as a surprise act - on pipe organ at the Symphonic Game Music Concert series in Leipzig, Germany in 2006 and 2007.^[2]

She performed her music at "Castlevania - The Concert" in Stockholm, Sweden. February 19, 2010. When she first entered the stage she got an instant standing ovation from the audience.^[3]

Discography

MSX

• King's Valley II
• Nemesis 3: The Eve of Destruction (with Motoaki Furukawa, Kazuhiko Uehara, Yukie Morimoto, and Masahiro Ikariko)
• SD Snatcher (with Masahiro Ikariko, Mutsuhiko Izumi, Motoaki Furukawa, Yuji Takenouchi, Harumi Uekoh, Yuko Kurahashi, Tomoya Tomita, Tsuyoshi Sekito, Kazuhiko Uehara)

Nintendo Entertainment System

• Ganbare Goemon 2 (with Koji Murata)

Arcade

• Lightning Fighters (with Kenichi Matsubara)
• Detana!! TwinBee (with Hidenori Maezawa and Masae Nakashima)
• Vendetta (with Hideaki Kashima)
• Astérix (with Mutsuhiko Izumi, Junya Nakano, M. Egama, and A. Hashimoto)
• Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa (with Hideaki Kashima)
• beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD: カミロ・ウナ・メンデス *Camiro una Mendes*

Game Boy

• Nemesis (with Shinya Sakamoto, Yuji Takenouchi, and Tomoya Tomita)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan (with Tomoko Nishikawa)

Mega Drive/Genesis

• Castlevania: Bloodlines
• Contra: Hard Corps (with Aki Hata and Hiroshi Kobayashi)
• Rocket Knight Adventures (with Masanori Ohuchi, Aki Hata, Masanori Adachi, and Hiroshi Kobayashi)^[4]
• Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2 (with Akira Yamaoka)

Super Nintendo

• Sparkster (with Kazuhiko Uehara, Masahiro Ikariko, Akira Yamaoka, and M. Matsuhira)

PlayStation

• Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
• Elder Gate (with Sōta Fujimori and Hidenori Onishi)
• Gungage (with Sōta Fujimori)

Saturn

• Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Game Boy Advance

• Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance ("boss rush" mode track and Vampire Killer 2002 remix only)
• Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (with Takashi Yoshida and Soshiro Hokkai)

PlayStation 2

• World Soccer Winning Eleven 5 Final Evolution (with Norikazu Miura)
• Winning Eleven 6 International (with Sōta Fujimori)
• Castlevania: Lament of Innocence
• Castlevania: Curse of Darkness
• Rumble Roses: The Thorn of Justice
• Suikoden III (with Takashi Yoshida and Masahiko Kimura)
• Suikoden IV (with Masahiko Kimura and Norikazu Miura)
• The Sword of Etheria
• DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME

PlayStation 3

• Skullgirls

Xbox

• Castlevania: Curse of Darkness

Xbox 360

• Otomedius G
• Skullgirls
• Otomedius Excellent (with Motoaki Furukawa)

Nintendo DS

• Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (with Masahiko Kimura)
• Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (with Yuzo Koshiro)
• Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (with Yasuhiro Ichihashi)

Wii

• Elebits (with Naoyuki Sato)

References

1. ^ Michiru Yamane's Profile at Castlevania: The Concert Retrieved on 10 December 2009.
2. ^ Symphonic Game Music Concerts, The Concert Programs
3. ^ Castlevania: The Concert's Profile at Last.fm Retrieved on 10 December 2009.
4. ^ VGMuseum: Rocket Knight Adventures credits. Retrieved on 26 October 2008.

External links

• Michiru Yamane Official Site
• Castlevania - The Concert

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Name	Yamane, Michiru
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Short description	Japanese musician
Date of birth	September 23, 1963
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