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Tuesday, May 23, 2006, 10:00
» Hitoshi Sakimoto to attend Detroit concert
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 23, 2006 - Today JMP Productions announced that veteran video game composer Hitoshi Sakimoto is going to attend the PLAY! A Video Game Symphony concert on July 12, 2006, in Detroit at the Orchestra Hall. His past work includes music for game titles such as Vagrant Story, Stella Deus and Final Fantasy XII. The PLAY! concert in Detroit is going to feature an exclusive suite of music written by Hitoshi Sakimoto, to be announced at a later time.
Since the 1980s, Hitoshi Sakimoto has been involved in the audio portion of video games. His music for the classic Final Fantasy Tactics made him a well-known name outside Japan. Since then, Hitoshi Sakimoto has been working on titles including Vagrant Story, Breath of Fire V: Dragon Quarter, Gradius V and Stella Deus. In 2003 he was introduced as the main composer of Final Fantasy XII, marking his biggest project to date.
Says Jason Michael Paul, producer of PLAY! A Video Game Symphony: "Sakimoto-san's visit to Detroit for PLAY! only reinforces what it is that we have set out to do and that is to make every tour stop special and unique. We intend to create a show that will evolve. This is just one more reason to come and be a part of history in the making.".
Tickets for the PLAY! concert in Detroit are available at the Max Fisher Hall box office or on the internet at the official Max Fisher Hall website.
Additional tour dates including ticket information are available at the
official PLAY! website at www.play-symphony.com/tickets.php. So far, upcoming PLAY! concerts have been announced for Philadelphia, Vienna (Virginia) and Toronto.
