Noriko Matsueda
| Noriko Matsueda | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 18, 1971 , Japan |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Composer |
| Instruments | Piano |
| Years active | 1995 - 2004 |
| Labels |
NTT Publishing DigiCube Avex Group |
| Associated acts | Takahito Eguchi |
Noriko Matsueda (松枝 賀子 Matsueda Noriko?, born December 18, 1971) is a Japanese former video game composer. She is best known for her work on the Front Mission series, The Bouncer, and Final Fantasy X-2. Matsueda collaborated with fellow composer Takahito Eguchi on several games. Composing music at an early age, she began studying the piano and electronic organ when she was three years old. She graduated from the Tokyo Conservatoire Shobi, where she met Eguchi.
She joined Square (now Square Enix) in 1994, where she created music for nine games. Her last credited work was Final Fantasy X-2's piano arrangement album, Final Fantasy X-2 Piano Collection from 2004, after which she decided to leave the company alongside Eguchi. She composed mostly jazz music for the scores she worked on.
Born in , Japan, Noriko Matsueda began creating music at an early age. She received a scholarship in music at the age of three and went on to study the piano and electronic organ. Matsueda took various composition and performance courses at the Tokyo Conservatoire Shobi, where she also met long-term collaborator Takahito Eguchi. She joined Square in 1994, where her first assignment was to score the 1995 title Front Mission alongside Yoko Shimomura. She subsequently contributed the track "Boss Battle 1" to Chrono Trigger, arranged by Nobuo Uematsu. Matsueda's first solo work was Bahamut Lagoon, which also represented her first collaboration with Eguchi, who arranged and orchestrated "Theme of Bahamut Lagoon ~ Opening" for the bonus disc of its original soundtrack. In 1996, she created the composition "Tower Block" for the multi-composer game Tobal No. 1. The following year, she created the soundtrack to Front Mission 2.
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