Taro Iwashiro

Taro Iwashiro is a Japanese composer, arranger and pianist born in Tokyo. He graduated at the top of his class in composition from the Tokyo University of the Arts in 1989 and completed its master's programme in 1991; his graduate work To The Farthest Land Of The World won the top prize at the Silk Road International Orchestral Composition Competition. He works mainly in film and television, with scores including Memories of Murder (2003) and John Woo's Red Cliff (2008), and has served on the board of the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra since 2006.

May 1, 1965