Composer / Director / Other

Yugo Kanno

菅野祐悟

Tokyo, Japan

One of Japan’s leading dramatic score composers, described as “the standard-bearer of score composition”. Graduated from the film and broadcast music course of the Tokyo college of music’s composition department, and was already writing for film, commercials and artists while a student. Score debut on Fuji tv’s monday-nine drama “last Christmas” (2004). Television: the NHK Taiga Drama The Strategist Kanbei (2014), the asadora Half, Blue Sky. ((2018), The Pride of the Temp, Glow of the Firefly, SP, Galileo, mozu, Love Affairs in the Afternoon, Tokyo What-If Girls, and the musical-influenced My Husband Can’t Do His Job. Anime: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure (all series), Psycho-pass, Gundam Reconguista in G, and the Detective Conan films. Film: Amalfi: Rewards of the Goddess (2009), which took the music artist award at the 19th Japan film critics awards and the Music Award at the Japan Theater Staff Film Festival. A monthly Galaxy Award (May 2014) and the 52nd Galaxy Award TV Encouragement Prize (2015). Has held orchestral concerts since 2007 and writes symphonies and concertos, a Trombone Concerto “Flower” for Kojiro Fujiwara (2011), a Second Symphony premiered 2019. Also works as a painter, and directed a film in 2023.