Hayato Matsuo

Hayato Matsuo
Hayato Matsuo 松尾早人
Born	August 13, 1965; Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
Genres	Orchestral; video game music;
Occupation(s)	Composer; arranger; orchestrator; pianist;
Instruments	Piano
Years active	1991–present
Associated acts	Koichi Sugiyama

Hayato Matsuo (松尾早人, Matsuo Hayato, born August 13, 1965) is a Japanese video game and anime composer, arranger and orchestrator. He has worked on titles such as Front Mission 3, Final Fantasy XII, the Shenmue series, Magic Knight Rayearth, and Hellsing Ultimate. Inspired by his mother, a piano teacher, he graduated from the music composition department of Tokyo University of the Arts. While in college, he composed for the band G-Clef, and occasionally stood in for members. Upon graduating in 1991, he went to work under Koichi Sugiyama, the composer for the popular Dragon Quest video game series, arranging his pieces for the 1991 anime Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai.

Also in 1991, Matsuo began to work as a video game music composer himself, writing the score to Master of Monsters. Over the next few years, he worked as an independent composer on several games and anime series, including Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen. In 1995, he joined the independent music composition group Imagine. He has continued since then to compose and orchestrate works for over 40 games and anime series, as well as the television show Kamen Rider 555 and a few pieces as part of original albums.

Biography

Early life

Matsuo's mother was a piano and electone teacher, and she inspired him to enjoy classical music. She also organized concerts for local children to compose and perform music in, which he took part in. While in school, he was inspired by Yellow Magic Orchestra and Rick Wakeman.[1] He eventually attended Tokyo University of the Arts, where he focused on classical music. While in school, however, he also was involved in more popular music, and was involved with the progressive rock band G-Clef, filling in sometimes for members of the band, many of whom he was friends with.[2] He also provided some music for the band.[3] When he was near graduation, Matsuo was introduced to Koichi Sugiyama, the composer for the Dragon Quest franchise. Upon graduating, he went to work with Sugiyama.[2]

Career

Matsuo began his career arranging Sugiyama's pieces for Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai in 1991. His first work as a composer also came in 1991, with the video game Master of Monsters. His first better-known work came in 1993 with Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen, which he co-composed with Hitoshi Sakimoto and Masaharu Iwata.[2] Since then, he has worked on over 30 other video games, both as a composer and orchestrator.

Beginning in 1994, Matsuo has also worked as a composer for anime series. His first was Magic Knight Rayearth, which he considers to be a turning point in his career.[2] In 2003 he composed the soundtrack for the live-action television show Kamen Rider 555, and in the early 1990s he arranged pieces for orchestration for the Orchestral Game Music Concerts. While his early work was done as an entirely freelance composer, in 1995 Matuso was recruited by Kohei Tanaka to join Imagine.[2] Imagine is an independent music composition and sound effect group for video games, consisting of nine employees.[4] While Matsuo has never released an album of original works himself, he has released numerous original tracks on six albums released on Shinji Hosoe's Troubadour Records label.

Works

Video games

Year	Title	Role(s)
1991	Master of Monsters	Composer
1991	Mercury: The Prime Master	Composer (other tracks by Taku Iwasaki, Seirou Okamoto and Tsushi Yamaji)
1992	Syvalion (SNES version)	Composer
1993	Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen	Composer (other tracks by Hitoshi Sakimoto and Masaharu Iwata)
	Classic Road	Composer
	Sword Maniac	Composer (other tracks by Hitoshi Sakimoto)
1994	Super Hockey '94	Composer
1995	Classic Road II	Composer
1995	Tengai Makyō: Kabuki Ittou Ryoudan	Composer (other tracks by Yuji Saito, Hironao Yamamoto, Kazuhiko Sawaguchi and Osamu Narita)
1996	Master of Monsters: Neo Generation	Composer
1996	NiGHTS into Dreams...	Theme song "NiGHTS" orchestrator
1997	Chou-Mahsin Eiyuuden Wataru: Another Step	Composer
1998	Dragon Force II	Composer (other tracks by Kohei Tanaka)
1998	Let's Smash	Composer
1999	Front Mission 3	Composer (other tracks by with Koji Hayama)
	Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber	Composer (other tracks by Hitoshi Sakimoto and Masaharu Iwata)
	Shenmue	Orchestrator
2001	Shiren the Wanderer GB2	Composer
2001	Shenmue II	Orchestrator
2002	Fushigi no Dungeon: Fūrai no Shiren Gaiden: Onna Kenshi Asuka Kenzan	Composer
2002	Panzer Dragoon Orta	Arrangement
2004	Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Special	Arrangement
2005	Homeland	Composer
2006	Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Portable[5]	Composer
	Dragon Quest: Shōnen Yangus to Fushigi no Dungeon	Arrangement
	Final Fantasy XII	Composer (other tracks by Hitoshi Sakimoto and Masaharu Iwata)
	Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer	Arrangement
2007	Itadaki Street DS	Arrangement
2007	Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen	Arrangement
2008	Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride	Arrangement
2010	Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation	Arrangement
	Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate	Composer
	GO Series: Pinball Attack!	Composer
	Arrow of Laputa	Composer
2011	El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron	Arrangement
2012	Dragon Quest X: Mezameshi Itsutsu no Shuzoku Online	Programming

Anime works

Year	Title	Role(s)
1991	Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai	Arrangement (other arrangements by Motoaki Takenouchi)
1994	Magic Knight Rayearth	Composer
1995	Saint Tail	Composer
	The Brave of Gold Goldran	Composer
	Magic Knight Rayearth 2	Composer
1996	Landlock	Composer
1997	Haunted Junction	Composer
1999	Street Fighter Alpha: The Animation	Composer
2001	Spirit of Wonder Scientific Boys Club	Composer
2002	Transformers: Armada	Composer
2005	Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor	Composer
2006	Hellsing Ultimate	Composer
2006	Yomigaeru Sora - Rescue Wings	Composer & Programming
2007	Les Misérables: Shoujo Cosette	Composer
2010	The World God Only Knows	Composer & Piano performance
2011	The World God Only Knows II	Composer & Piano performance
2012	Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called!: Me and the Space Princess	Composer (other tracks by Keiji Inai, Toshiyuki Arakawa and Akifumi Tada)
2012	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure	Composer
2013	The World God Only Knows: Goddesses	Composer
2013	A Certain Magical Index: The Miracle of Endymion	Arrangement (other arrangements by Kenji Inai and Yasunori Iwasaki)
2014	Shirobako	Synthesizer programming
2016	Endride	Composer (other tracks by Kohei Tanaka and Hiroshi Nakamura)
	Drifters	Composer (other tracks by Yasushi Ishii)
	Keijo!!!!!!!!	Composer
2018	Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take on Me	Arrangement (other arrangements by Akifumi Tada, Rei Ishizuka, Shingo Nishimura and Kazuhiko Sawaguchi)
	Captain Tsubasa	Composer
	Hi Score Girl	Arrangement (other arrangements by Yoko Shimomura, Akifumi Tada, Rei Ishizuka and Shingo Nishimura)
2021	Heaven's Design Team	Composer

Television works

Year	Title	Role(s)
2003	Kamen Rider 555	Composer

Other works

Year	Album	Role(s)
1991	SYNERGY MCMXCI 1991	Composer ("NUTS")
1992	Be filled with feeling	Composer & Arranger ("Chromatic Beast")
1993	Great Wall	Composer & Arranger ("The Manic Depressive" & "A Planet's Death")
	KAKI-IN 1993 SUMMER	Composer & Arranger ("Salmon roe")
	G.T.R	Composer ("G.U.T")
1994	T·O·U·R·S	Composer ("MINDFUL OF MIDNIGHT FLYING")
1999	2197	Composer ("Old Pork")
2009	A NIGHT IN FANTASIA 2009	Arranger ("Radical Dreamers Symphony")

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References

Matsuo, Hayato (2005-02-09). 今月の作家 (in Japanese). Japan Composers & Arrangers Association. Retrieved 2010-01-11.
Greening, Chris (2010-01-03). "Hayato Matsuo Interview: Dark Orchestral Writing". Game Music Online. Retrieved 2014-11-15.
"Creators：imagine｜株式会社イマジン" (in Japanese). Imagine. Archived from the original on 2010-01-21. Retrieved 2010-01-11.
"Company：imagine｜株式会社イマジン" (in Japanese). Imagine. Archived from the original on 2009-08-03. Retrieved 2010-01-11.
Greening, Chris. "Interview with Hayato Matsuo (January 2010)". Square Enix Music Online. Retrieved 14 May 2018.

External links

Profile at IMAGINE inc. (in Japanese)
Discography at VGMdb
Hayato Matsuo at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

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[JCAAint-1] Matsuo, Hayato (2005-02-09). 今月の作家 (in Japanese). Japan Composers & Arrangers Association. Retrieved 2010-01-11.

[GMOint-2] Greening, Chris (2010-01-03). "Hayato Matsuo Interview: Dark Orchestral Writing". Game Music Online. Retrieved 2014-11-15.

[IMAGINEbio-3] "Creators：imagine｜株式会社イマジン" (in Japanese). Imagine. Archived from the original on 2010-01-21. Retrieved 2010-01-11.

[IMAGINEcomp-4] "Company：imagine｜株式会社イマジン" (in Japanese). Imagine. Archived from the original on 2009-08-03. Retrieved 2010-01-11.

[5] Greening, Chris. "Interview with Hayato Matsuo (January 2010)". Square Enix Music Online. Retrieved 14 May 2018.