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Michiru Yamane :: Biography

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Michiru Yamane is a classically-trained Konami composer who currently leads music production for the Castlevania franchise. Having taken piano lessons as a child, she started to learn to compose in high school and begun to enjoy the compositions of Maurice Ravel. She subsequently studied musical composition at the Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music and learnt Baroque counterpoint among other disciplines. After taking a Masters, she was offered at teaching job at a high school but wanted to continue composing. In 1988, she went to a job fair looking for work and, learning Konami were one of the only companies looking to hire composers, applied to them. After accepting, she underwent a period of training