Matsue worked alongside Hamauzu on the soundtrack to Final Fantasy VII as a soprano and Sigma Harmonics as a scat singer ; she was also a soprano for the score to Final Fantasy VIII & a lead vocalist in Final Fantasy XIII.

Hamauzu also contributed the Piano Collections arranged album of the game, which he described as his most challenging work, and the track named " feel ", an arrangement of " Hymn of the Fayth ", from the EP feel / Go dream: Yuna & Tidus.

He also orchestrated three themes for Unlimited Saga on behalf of his university friend Hamauzu.

Their co-composer, Nobuo Uematsu, also composed the music while co-composer, Masashi Hamauzu, arranged the music as well.

Eduardo of Square Enix Music Online also appreciated Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII Multiplayer Mode Original Sound Collections, saying that it accented the Original Soundtrack well and that " Hamauzu and Yamazaki have delivered strongly and, with a decent mix of electronica, orchestral music, and rock, the entirety of the Dirge of Cerberus musical experience cannot be missed ".

Hamauzu released a solo album, Vielen Dank, in 2007 after recording it in Munich, Germany.

Piano Collections Final Fantasy X, a collection of piano arrangements of the original soundtracks by Masashi Hamauzu and performed by Aki Kuroda, was released by DigiCube in 2002 and re-released by Square EA in 2004.

To date, these are the only released albums based on the original game's soundtrack, and were solely composed by regular series composer Nobuo Uematsu ; his role for the majority of subsequent albums has been filled by Masashi Hamauzu and Takeharu Ishimoto.

They especially praised Hamauzu, both for his work in the original soundtrack and in arranging the songs for Piano Collections Final Fantasy X.

Piano Collections Final Fantasy X is a collection of music from the original soundtrack arranged for the piano by Masashi Hamauzu, and performed by Aki Kuroda.

Working with Nakano on these games, Hamauzu admired his musical style, and they became friends ; they have later collaborated on several titles.

In 2001, Hamauzu and Nakano were chosen to assist Uematsu in the production of the score for the critically acclaimed Final Fantasy X, based on their ability to create music that was different from Uematsu's style.

Nakano has collaborated with his friend and fellow composer Masashi Hamauzu on several games.

Hamauzu and Nakano became friends after working on Front Mission: Gun Hazard and Tobal No. 1, and they have later collaborated on several titles.

In 2001, Nakano and Hamauzu were chosen to assist Uematsu in the production of the score for the critically acclaimed Final Fantasy X, based on their ability to create music that was different from Uematsu's style ; Nakano created 20 pieces.

Hamauzu intended the process of arranging the pieces to " consider the groundwork of individual compositions in order to transform these pieces into piano arrangements " rather than simply playing the songs on a piano as they originally sounded.

In 1999, Hamauzu was assigned with scoring SaGa Frontier 2, replacing the SaGa series ' long-time composer Kenji Ito.

Shortly after the title's release, Hamauzu and Yasuo Sako created Chocobo no Fushigina Dungeon Coi Vanni Gialli, an arranged album containing orchestral tracks from the game's music.

Different to Symphonic Legends which featured the work of six arrangers, the music of LEGENDS has been arranged by the trio Jonne Valtonen, Roger Wanamo and Masashi Hamauzu who were in attendance at the concert and Meet & Greet.

is a soundtrack album of music from Final Fantasy X composed, arranged and produced by Nobuo Uematsu, Masashi Hamauzu and Junya Nakano.

Born in Munich, Germany, Masashi Hamauzu's mother was a piano teacher and his father, Akimori Hamauzu, an opera singer.

Growing up in Germany, Hamauzu received piano and singing lessons from his parents and created his first original compositions during high school.

He created four pieces for the 1996 video game Front Mission: Gun Hazard, which featured composers Nobuo Uematsu, Yasunori Mitsuda, and Masashi Hamauzu.

After Nobuo Uematsu left Square Enix in 2004, Hamauzu took over as the leading composer of the company's music team.

In 2002, Hamauzu composed the music for Unlimited Saga, a game that would be received negatively by critics due to a variety of gameplay issues.

Additional music was contributed by Roger Wanamo and guest arrangers Shiro Hamaguchi, Hayato Matsuo, Masashi Hamauzu and Torsten Rasch.

Born in Fukuoka, Japan, Shiro Hamaguchi graduated with a music degree from Tokyo University of the Arts, where he befriended fellow video game musician Masashi Hamauzu.

Back at Square Enix, he created the music for Musashi: Samurai Legend with Hamauzu and the duo Wavelink Zeal ( Takayuki and Yuki Iwai ) in 2004.

The music of the video game Final Fantasy X was composed by regular series composer Nobuo Uematsu, along with Masashi Hamauzu and Junya Nakano.

Nakano set out to create music with a " vibrant and dynamic feel " that tied together his years of experience with game music, while Hamauzu tried to use the soundtrack to bring video game music to " greater heights ".

Feeling gradually more dissatisfied and uninspired, Uematsu requested the assistance of composers Masashi Hamauzu and Junya Nakano for the score to Final Fantasy X in 2001.

However, after being assigned the task of creating the entire score of Final Fantasy XIV, Uematsu decided to hand the job over to the main Final Fantasy XIII composer, Hamauzu.

* Tobal No. 1 ( 1996 ) – with Masashi Hamauzu, Junya Nakano, Yasuhiro Kawami, Kenji Ito, Noriko Matsueda, Ryuji Sasai, and Yoko Shimomura

Born into a musical family in Germany, Hamauzu was raised in Japan.

Hamauzu was hired by Square ( now Square Enix ) as a trainee, and his debut as a solo composer came the following year when he scored Chocobo no Fushigina Dungeon.

In 2010, Hamauzu left Square Enix to start his own studio, Monomusik.

Hamauzu met his wife, Matsue Hamauzu ( née Fukushi ), at the university, and they have two children.

A fan of the Final Fantasy games, Hamauzu decided to apply for a job at Square.

Nobuo Uematsu was impressed with his résumé, and employed Hamauzu as a trainee in 1996.

In 2005, Hamauzu, Nakano, and the duo Wavelink Zeal ( Takayuki and Yuki Iwai ) scored Musashi: Samurai Legend, the sequel to the 1998 title Brave Fencer Musashi.

Hamauzu composed the highly anticipated but critically unsuccessful Final Fantasy VII follow-up, Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII, in 2006.

At the 2006 E3 event, a Square Enix press conference revealed that Hamauzu would be returning to the Final Fantasy series, scoring Final Fantasy XIII.