** Now making music under the name Boy Runaway **
Journey folk from the Cloudlands

If you're looking for my composition work go here: https://soundcloud.com/brunomerzcomposer

Danish as f*ck. We're constantly on the road. Come see us at a show and say hi! New album "Lost In Translation" out now!

https://akirakosemura.com/
Akira Kosemura (he/him) is a composer and pianist hailing from Tokyo, Japan. He is a prolific artist, constantly releasing solo albums and composing music for films, TV drama, games, stage, and commercial music.

Akira founded his own label Schole Records early on after his solo album It’s on Everything released in 2007 while he was still in school. In 2017 and 2018 Akira’s music was ranked in Spotify’s “Most Played Japanese Artists/Songs Top 10”, and his works have been highly acclaimed on media around the world, including US music media Pitchfork, Australian newspaper THE AGE, French public broadcast FIP, and Canadian public broadcast Ici Musique.

Akira’s major score works include Fragments of The Last Will by Takahisa Zeze, the Cannes 2020 featured film True Mothers (Asa Ga Kuru) directed by Naomi Kawase, Hollywood produced drama series Love Is__, the Nintendo Switch game Jack Jeanne produced by Sui Ishida, the TBS drama series Chugakusei Nikki, the contemporary ballet piece MANON, and the Japan Pavilion in Milano EXPO. His music pieces were also featured in the Amazon original movie Jonas Brothers’ CHASING HAPPINESS, the Venice Film Festival Golden Lion awarded director Audrey Diwan’s debut film Mais vous etes fous (Losing It), and the Toho movie Omoi, Omoware, Furi, Furare.

In recent years, he has worked on projects in different media such as SK-II STUDIO’s documentary The Center Lane (featuring Rikako Ikee), directed by Hirokazu Koreeda, the runway music for a collection from apparel brand TAKAHIROMIYASHITA The Soloist., as well as music for LA MER BLUE HEART, LAND ROVER, and L’OCCITANE. Akira has also co-produced a song with American musician Devendra Banhart.

In addition to his versatility and diverse portfolio, Akira has been working on a world scale. In 2022 he signed a contract with prestigious Decca Records, and the EP Pause (almost equal to) Play was released worldwide. Akira’s music was also sampled in John Legend’s song “The Other Ones feat. Rhapsody” included in his new album Legend Act I & II. And Akira’s first major album SEASONS was released on Decca Records (UMG) on June 30, 2023.

Composer and Orchestrator for Film, Games, TV. Writing a lot of Star Wars inspired music at the moment.

Compositeur, arrangeur, orchestrateur, chef d’orchestre, professeur.

Titulaire d'un Master en Composition, d'une Licence en Musicologie, d'un premier prix de Composition, d'un premier prix d’Orchestration et d'une médaille d'or en Arrangement.

Prix SACEM de Composition et d’Orchestration (1995).
Prix de la meilleure composition jazz aux Trophées du Jazz de la Côte d’Azur (2001).

Denis Bioteau a travaillé dans la variété (Smaïn, Jean-Claude Borelly, Gem Duncan), le jazz (Caravansérail, Niss’Arte Big Band), la musique symphonique (jingles pour Radio France, TF1, FR2 avec le BSO - Budapest Symphonic Orchestra) et le théâtre (« La Belle Hélène » à Versailles, « Le Dernier Violon » région Rhône-Alpes, « La Chasse aux Papillons » et « Coup de Casquette à Pierre Perret » région Pays de la Loire, « Legend’Airs » à Paris).

Denis Bioteau a enseigné l’arrangement et l’orchestration à l’Ecole de Jazz du C.I.M. à Paris (1991 à 2004), l’harmonie jazz au Conservatoire de Bois-Colombes (1995 à 2000) et l'écriture musicale au Centre Musical de Marsannay-la-Côte (2008 à 2010).

Musikbloggen som älskar ny musik. 
The Swedish music blog for pop music lovers.

Lights & Motion is the solo-project of Swedish composer Christoffer Franzén. 

Official Website: www.lightsandmotion.com
Get in touch: info@lightsandmotion.com

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