For Final Fantasy XI from 2002, he was joined by Naoshi Mizuta, who composed the majority of the soundtrack, and Kumi Tanioka ; Uematsu was responsible for only eleven tracks.

On September 17 and September 18, 2011 at Club Citta in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Sakuraba and his band joined up with the Earthbound Papas, led by famous video game composer Nobuo Uematsu, to perform at Fantasy Rock Fest 2011.

After Mitsuda contracted stomach ulcers, regular Final Fantasy series composer Nobuo Uematsu joined the project to compose ten songs and finish the score.

Most of the tracks were composed by Kenji Ito, while track 16, " Chocobo Tanjou ( Chocobo's Birth )," is credited to renowned Square composer Nobuo Uematsu.

When Uematsu was working at a music rental shop in Tokyo, a Square employee asked if he would be interested in creating music for some of the titles they were working on.

The first game Uematsu composed for Square was Genesis in 1985.

While working at Square, he met Hironobu Sakaguchi, who asked him if he wanted to create music for some of his games, which Uematsu agreed to.

In 1987, Uematsu and Sakaguchi collaborated on what was originally to be Sakaguchi's last contribution for Square, Final Fantasy, a game that turned out to be a huge success.

In 2002, fellow Square Enix colleagues Kenichiro Fukui and Tsuyoshi Sekito asked Uematsu to join them in forming a rock band that focused on reinterpreting and expanding on Uematsu's compositions.

Uematsu left Square Enix in 2004 and formed his own company called Smile Please ; he also created the music production company Dog Ear Records in 2006.

* Japanese composer Nobuo Uematsu used portions of " O Fortuna ", " Estuans interius ", and " Veni, veni, venias " for the final boss theme " One-Winged Angel " in Square Enix's Final Fantasy VII.

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

* November 5 — Nobuo Uematsu resigns from Square Enix and becomes a freelancer, starting his own business, called Smile Please Co., Ltd ..

In 1991, after Fujioka had been hired as a director for Square, Sasai was invited to join the company as they needed composers to assist Nobuo Uematsu and Kenji Ito.

His subsequent work for Square was 1992's Final Fantasy Mystic Quest ( known as " Mystic Quest Legend " in Europe ), which he composed with Yasuhiro Kawakami ; it was the first game in the Final Fantasy series not to be composed by regular series composer Uematsu.

The Black Mages were a Japanese instrumental rock band formed in 2002 by Nobuo Uematsu, Kenichiro Fukui and Tsuyoshi Sekito-three composers for Square Enix.

They had also left Square Enix ; Uematsu built the new band to not include any current Square Enix employees so as to avoid the trademark and licensing problems of The Black Mages.

Among video game music influences, he has cited Square for providing him " with the education for what quality means to this business " and Nobuo Uematsu in particular.

Philip of Square Enix Music Online, however, disliked the sound quality of the soundtrack and saw several tracks as " trivial ", though he did note that Uematsu " has a flair for strong, memorable " pieces.

Among the composers she grew familiar with were Square employees Hitoshi Sakimoto, Nobuo Uematsu and Kenji Ito.

This is the cover of the Chrono Trigger Original Sound Version, composed by Yasunori Mitsuda, Nobuo Uematsu, and Noriko Matsueda, and produced, distributed and owned by Square Enix.

For their first album they performed in Shibuya and Kanagawa, Japan in 2003 and later released a live video of the first concert on DVD exclusively to Uematsu fanclub members.

Uematsu eventually decided the track was too gloomy and kept it for a later use.

Their next appearance was in the animated film Final Fantasy VII Advent Children and its corresponding soundtrack album, where they played — together with orchestration conducted by Koji Haijima —" Advent: One-Winged Angel ", an arrangement of " One-Winged Angel " from Final Fantasy VII originally composed by Uematsu and arranged by Shirō Hamaguchi.

Uematsu currently resides in Tokyo, Japan with his wife, Reiko, whom he met during college, and their Beagle, Pao.

Like the previous album, Darkness and Starlight features an original piece, " Life ~ in memory of KEITEN ~", which was composed by Uematsu for Yoshitaka Tagawa, a boy he had met who died of leukemia.

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.

This marked the first time that Uematsu did not compose an entire main-series Final Fantasy soundtrack.

In 2005, Uematsu and several members of The Black Mages created the score for the CGI film Final Fantasy VII Advent Children.

Uematsu composed only the main theme for Final Fantasy XII ( 2006 ); he was originally offered the job of creating the full score, but Sakimoto was eventually assigned as the main composer instead.

Uematsu was also initially going to create the theme song for Final Fantasy XIII ( 2010 ).

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.

In 2012 " Aerith's Theme ", written by Uematsu for Final Fantasy VII, was voted into the number 16 position in the annual Classic FM ( UK ) " Hall of Fame " top 300 chart.

Uematsu at the Final Fantasy concerts # Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy | Distant Worlds concert on July 11, 2009 in Seattle, Washington

Despite the self-described " disastrous " interview with composer Nobuo Uematsu and sound programmer Minoru Akao, in which he claimed to only want the job as a " stepping stone " in his career and admitted that he had never played many of Square's biggest games, such as the Final Fantasy series, Mitsuda was offered a position on the company's sound team in April 1992.

* Nobuo Uematsu ( born 1959 ) is a video game composer, best known for scoring the majority of titles in the Final Fantasy series.

Composers who made a name for themselves with their software include Nobuo Uematsu ( Final Fantasy ), Koji Kondo ( Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda ), Koichi Sugiyama ( Dragon Quest ), Miki Higashino ( Gradius, Yie-Ar Kung Fu, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ), Hiroshi Miyauchi ( Space Harrier, Hang-On, Out Run ), Rob Hubbard ( Monty On the Run, International Karate ), Hirokazu Tanaka ( Metroid, Kid Icarus, EarthBound ), Martin Galway ( Daley Thompson's Decathlon, Stryker's Run, Times of Lore ), Yuzo Koshiro ( Dragon Slayer, Ys, Shinobi, ActRaiser, Streets of Rage ), Mieko Ishikawa ( Dragon Slayer, Ys ), and Ryu Umemoto ( visual novels, shoot ' em ups ).

In 1991, he also formed a series called Orchestral Game Concerts, notable for featuring other talented game composers such as Yoko Kanno ( Nobunaga's Ambition, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Uncharted Waters ), Nobuo Uematsu ( Final Fantasy ), Keiichi Suzuki ( Mother / Earthbound ), and Kentaro Haneda ( Wizardry ).

Following suit, compositions by Nobuo Uematsu on Final Fantasy IV were arranged into Final Fantasy IV: Celtic Moon, a live performance by string musicians with strong celtic influence recorded in Ireland.

Global popularity of video game music would begin to surge with Square's 1990s successes, particularly with Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII by Nobuo Uematsu and with Chrono Trigger, Xenogears and Chrono Cross by Yasunori Mitsuda.

In 2006, Hironobu Sakaguchi, the former designer and creator of the Final Fantasy series, recruited Amano and composer Nobuo Uematsu to work on video games at Mistwalker.

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.