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Tokyo, Japan (1965 – present)

Isao Tomita (冨田 勲; Tomita Isao, born 22 April 1932), is a renowned electronic music composer.

Tomita was born in Tokyo and spent his early childhood with his father in China. After returning to Japan, he took private lessons in orchestration and composition while an art history student at Keio University, Tokyo. He graduated in 1955 and became a full-time composer for television, film and theatre. He composed the theme music for the Japanese Olympic gymnastics team for the 1956 Summer Olympics in Australia.

In 1965, he composed the theme song and incidental music for Osamu Tezuka’s animated TV series Jangaru Taitei (Jungle Emperor), released in the USA as Kimba the White Lion. Years later, he would write a tone poem based on this music.

In the late 1960s, he turned his attention to electronic music after hearing albums by Wendy Carlos in which Wendy performed classical music with the Moog synthesizer. Isao acquired a Moog III synthesizer and began building his home studio. He started arranging Claude Debussy’s pieces for synthesizer and in 1974 the album Snowflakes are Dancing was released; it became a worldwide success. His version of Arabesque #1 is used as the theme to the astronomy TV series Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer (originally titled Star Hustler) seen on most PBS stations. Also in 1974, Tomita composed music for the Japanese film Last Days of Planet Earth. He often employs Klangfarbenmelodie, using synthesizer voices.

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