Takahito Eguchi

Takahito Eguchi (江口貴勅 Eguchi Takahito; born August 28, 1974 in Nagasaki, Japan) is a Japanese video game music composer.

Eguchi attended Tokyo Conservatoire Shobi, and he has been a first-generation musician. At the age of 6, he was influenced into the music field when he heard his neighbor play the piano, and he would listen to it daily. His father tried to make him to become a sportsman, but later agreed to let him become a musician, first studying piano. Having a great musical background since then, he worked for Square Enix from 1995 to 2003, working on several titles with Noriko Matsueda, whom he first met at the Conservatoire. Takahito Eguchi is now working on Japanese anime series. He currently resides in Tokyo. His musical influences are Igor Stravinsky, Leonard Bernstein, and Miles Davis. In 2003, Eguchi left Square Enix and became a freelancer after assisting Matsueda in scoring Final Fantasy X-2.