Yoko Shimomura, identified for composing many iconic online game music scores, might be honored with a BAFTA Fellowship.
Her musical works embrace the Kingdom Hearts collection, Closing Fantasy XV and Xenoblade Chronicles.
The Fellowship, arts charity’s highest honour, might be introduced on the twenty first BAFTA Video games Awards on April 8, streaming stay on Twitch and YouTube from 11 a.m. Pacific time.
Shimomura is a Japanese composer and pianist. She might be acknowledged for her contribution to the video games trade. The BAFTA Fellowship recognises those that have made an excellent and distinctive contribution to movie, video games or tv and is the humanities charity’s most prestigious honour.
Credited because the composer of numerous era-defining online game soundtracks loved by hundreds of thousands of gamers worldwide, together with the Kingdom Hearts collection, Closing Fantasy XV, Mario & Luigi, Xenoblade Chronicles, Streets of Rage, the Mana collection, Tremendous Mario RPG, Reside A Reside, Radiant Historia, Parasite Eve, Breather of Fireplace and Avenue Fighter II, the affect of Shimomura’s work might be felt for generations to return.
Yoko Shimomura stated, in an announcement, “I’m completely delighted to obtain such an incredible and prestigious award as this, though, actually talking, I nonetheless can not fairly consider it. I’m who I’m at the moment due to all of the individuals who have supported me, permitting me to proceed being concerned with the music that I really like and discovering the medium of video games the place that music can flourish.”
She added, “I’m deeply grateful to everybody within the video games trade, to those that ask me to write down my music and to all those that hearken to it. I would really like for them, and for everybody who has been part of my life, to affix with me in celebrating this award. Thanks a lot.”
Jane Millichip, CEO of BAFTA, stated in an announcement, “It’s a actual privilege to honour Yoko Shimomura with the BAFTA Fellowship this yr. A pioneer of online game music, pianist and composer, Yoko has created unforgettable soundtracks for thus many beloved video games and paved the way in which for girls within the trade at a time when it was overwhelmingly male-dominated. Her groundbreaking work has already impressed numerous artists and can proceed to resonate for generations. We sit up for honouring her on the twenty first BAFTA Video games Awards.”
Shimomura graduated from the Osaka Junior Faculty of Music, Division of Instrumental Music (piano) and is now a contract composer having beforehand labored for beloved video video games corporations Capcom and Sq. Enix (previously often known as Sq.). Shimomura’s works span a variety of genres, from rhythmical computer-generated sounds to large-scale classical orchestral items, although she is especially well-known for her melodious and poignant songs, in addition to her intense and dramatic items.
Fellows beforehand honoured for his or her work embrace Shuhei Yoshida, Warwick Davis, Hideo Kojima, Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Martin Scorsese, Gabe Newell, Siobhan Reddy, Helen Mirren, Hideo Kojima, Tim Schafer, Shigeru Miyamoto, John Carmack, Peter Molyneux, and Thelma Schoonmaker.
The award might be introduced to Shimomura on the twenty first annual BAFTA Video games Awards on Tuesday 8 April on the Queen Elizabeth Corridor in London and might be streamed stay on BAFTA’s YouTube and Twitch channels. The ceremony might be hosted for the second time by comic and video video games fanatic Phil Wang the place he’ll entertain an viewers stuffed with a whole roster of trade greats.
