Leif Ove Andsnes is a Norwegian pianist and chamber musician. Andsnes has made several recordings for Virgin and EMI. For his "Beethoven Journey" project, Andsnes performed and recorded all five of the composer's piano concertos with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra for Sony Classical. He is represented by IMG.
Hideto Takarai, known by his stage name Hyde, is a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor. Best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band L'Arc-en-Ciel since 1991, he is also the lead vocalist of Vamps and has a solo career.
Murray David Perahia, KBE is an American pianist and conductor. He is widely considered as one of the greatest living pianists. He was the first North American pianist to win the Leeds International Piano Competition, in 1972. Known as a leading interpreter of Bach, Handel, Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schumann, among other composers, Perahia has won numerous awards, including three Grammy Awards from a total of 18 nominations, and 9 Gramophone Awards in addition to its first and only "Piano Award".
Shinjiro Otani is a Japanese professional wrestler contracted to Pro Wrestling Zero1 (Zero1). Otani is also the acting President of the company.
Shinya Hashimoto was a Japanese professional wrestler, promoter and actor. Along with Masahiro Chono and Keiji Mutoh, Hashimoto was dubbed one of the "Three Musketeers" that began competing in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) in the mid-1980s and dominated the promotion in the 1990s.
Fazıl Say is a Turkish pianist and composer.
Rafał Blechacz is a Polish classical pianist.
Kimeru is a Japanese pop musician, singer, and stage actor. He is most famous for his work with The Prince of Tennis. He adopted the stage name Kimeru, which means "to decide" in Japanese, before debuting. Kimeru's birth name has never been announced publicly. Starting from 2018 onward, with the release of his 16th single "go forward", the singer's name is now stylized as KIMERU.
Ikuma Dan was a Japanese composer.
Pehr Henrik Nordgren was a Finnish composer.
Robert Carl is an American composer who currently resides in Hartford, Connecticut, where he is chair of the composition program at the Hartt School, University of Hartford.
Piotr Anderszewski is a Polish pianist and composer.
Aimi Kobayashi is a Japanese classical pianist.
Shinji Hashimoto is a Japanese game producer at Square Enix. He served as the Final Fantasy series Brand Manager for over a decade, was an Executive Officer at Square Enix board of directors and he was the Head of Square Enix's Business Division 3 for 6 years. He is also the co-creator of the Kingdom Hearts series. He served as corporate executive of the company's 1st Production Department during its entire existence.
Sean Eric Kennard is an American classical pianist.
Noble is a Japanese record label founded in 2001. Specializing in experimental electronic music, especially with influences from glitch and post-rock, artists from its roster have been influential and popular in the Japanese electronic music and post-rock scene.
Shunsuke Sato is a Japanese-born, classical and baroque violinist and violist.
Kyōhei Tsutsumi, was a Japanese composer, record producer and arranger.
Nikolay Madoyan is an Armenian virtuoso violinist. Madoyan's continuous performance of 59 world classics of different styles and epochs, for more than 33 hours, has been entered in the Guinness World Records book as an “Officially Amazing” achievement.
Danjulo Ishizaka is a German cellist and professor at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden.
