Viola Max Wolpert, Crookston, Minnesota Lydia Downard, Boston, Massachusetts Peter J. Pezzino, Gold Canyon, Arizona Jennifer Frantz, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Gerson Eguiguren Martinez, Quito, Ecuador Jane Evancio, Chicago, /llinois Hui Qi Ng, Singapore Cello Keizo Yoshioka, Hopedale, Massachusetts George Crotty, Toronto, Canada Parker Ousley, Northfield, Minnesota Milim (Michelle) Lee, Woodland Hills, California Rodolfo Arteaga Yglesias, Venezuela Cristobal Cruz Garcia, San Diego, California Hector Fierro Garcia, Mexico City, Mexico Bass Zac Cambria, Oley, Pennsylvania Alex Rancourt, Quebec City, Canada Irais Brito Hierrezuelo, Havana, Cuba Steve Haan, Indianapolis, Indiana Denisse Ojeda, Rowland Heights, California Wesley Anderson, Orion, lllinois Seulgi Hwang, Goyang, South Korea About Composer Nobuo Uematsu Nobuo Uematsu is one of the most celebrated composers in the video game field. He has achieved global recognition for his work on the FINAL FANTASY series that has been performed by world-class orchestras around the world. Nobuo Uematsu has been recognized as a major contributor in the increasing appreciation and awareness of video game music. A prime example is the FINAL FANTASY VIIl theme song, * Eyes on Me,” composed and produced by him. His song featured Hong Kong pop star Faye Wong and sold a record 400,000 copies. It also won “Song of the Year (Western Music)” at the 14th annual Japan Gold Disc Awards in 1999, which was the first time in history that music from a video game had attained this illustrious honor. With the music from the game series garnering such acclaim, Nobuo Uematsu was named as one of the “Innovators” in Time magazine’s “Time 100: The Next Wave—Music “ feature. About Music Director Arnie Roth Arnie Roth is a Grammy-winning artist known for his work with performers including Il Divo, Diana Ross, Jewel, the Irish Tenors, Charlotte Church, Peter Cetera, and Dennis DeYoung. Roth has conducted the London Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony, the Hollywood Bowl Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Dallas Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the BBC Symphony, the Czech National Chamber . . Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the San Diego Symphony, the Winnipeg Symphony, the Joffrey Ballet of C hicago, the Detroit Symphony, the Ravinia Festival Orchestra, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic, and the Sydney Symphony. Roth is well known in the world of video game music for his work with Nobuo Uematsu and SQUARE ENIX as music director and conductor of the “Dear Friends: music from FINAL FANTASY," “More Friends: music from FINAL FANTASY,” “VOICES: music from FINAL FANTASY," as well as his role as music director and conductor of “PLAY! A Video Game Symphony.” He was the winner of the Best Score Award at the 2003 DVD Premier Awards for his score for the film Barbie as Rapunzel and was nominated for an Emmy in 2007 for his original song “Shine” from the movie Barbie in The Twelve Dancing Princesses. Roth has produced dozens of best-selling CDs. For more information, visit awrmusic.com.