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



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. 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.