Kumi Tanioka

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Kumi Tanioka (Fan Festival 2006)

Kumi Tanioka (谷岡 久美, Tanioka Kumi, born August 29, 1974 in Hiroshima, Japan) is a Japanese video game music composer. She studied at the Kobe University before joining Square (now Square Enix) in 1998. Her works includes Chocobo's Dungeon 2 (with Yasuhiro Kawakami, Tsuyoshi Sekito and Kenji Ito), All Star Pro-Wrestling (with Kenichiro Fukui and Tsuyoshi Sekito), Final Fantasy XI (with Naoshi Mizuta and Nobuo Uematsu), Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles and Code Age Commanders. She is also part of the band The Star Onions that arranged Final Fantasy XI music.

Works

• Daraku Tenshi: The Fallen Angels (1998): composer
• Chocobo's Dungeon 2 (1998): composer
• Dice de Chocobo (1999): composer
• All Star Pro-Wrestling (2000): composer
• Blue Wing Blitz (2001): composer
• Final Fantasy XI (2002): composer
• Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles (2003): composer
• Code Age Commanders (2005): composer
• Project Sylpheed (2006): composer
• Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates (2007): composer
• Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon (2008): composer

Discography

• Chocobo no Fushigina Dungeon 2 Original Soundtrack (1999)
• Final Fantasy XI: Original Soundtrack (2002)
• Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Original Soundtrack (2003)
• Final Fantasy XI - Music from the Other Side of Vana'diel (2005)
• Code Age Commanders Original Soundtrack (2005)
• Project Sylpheed Original Soundtrack (2006)
• Chocobo no Fushigina Dungeon Toki Wasure No Meikyū Original Soundtrack (2008)

External links

• Squaresound Kumi Tanioka Biography + Discography
• Square Enix Music The official Square Enix Music website
• Squaremusic French fansite about Kumi Tanioka
• RPGFan Interview with Kumi Tanioka
• Kumi Tanioka discography at MusicBrainz