The following is a list of music/sound composers that are or have been employed at Nintendo. Each composer is listed with a notable game/franchise that he/she has worked on.
Please note that this list does not include any freelance nor affiliated third-party composers that have worked on Nintendo-published titles.
Nintendo composers[]
- Akito Nakatsuka (Ice Climber/Excitebike)
- Asuka Hayazaki (New Super Mario Bros./Wii Fit Plus)
- Asuka Itō (2006-2014; now freelance) (Pilotwings Resort)
- Atsuko Asahi (Mario Kart 8/ARMS)
- Daisuke Matsuoka (Find Mii)
- Daisuke Shiiba (2005-2013; now freelance) (Tomodachi Collection)
- Hajime Hirasawa (1990-1992; now founder and president of Faith, Inc.) (Star Fox)
- Hajime Wakai (Zelda series)
- Hideaki Shimizu (Joy Mecha Fight)
- Hirokazu Tanaka (1980-1999; now works for Creatures Inc.) (Duck Hunt/Balloon Fight)
- Kenji Yamamoto (Punch-Out!!/Metroid Prime)
- Kenta Nagata (Mario Kart 64)
- Koichi Kyuma (Metroid Prime)
- Koji Kondo (Mario series)
- Kozue Ishikawa (1993-2003?; unknown occupation) (The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening)
- Maasa Miyoshi (1-2-Switch)
- Mahito Yokota (Super Mario Galaxy)
- Manaka Kataoka (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)
- Masafumi Kawamura (Pokémon Stadium/Super Mario Galaxy)
- Masami Yone (Rhythm Heaven)
- Masaru Tajima (WarioWare: Touched!)
- Megumi Inoue (Rhythm Heaven Megamix)
- Minako Hamano (Super Metroid)
- Mitsuhiro Hikino (Pokémon Stadium)
- Naoto Ishida (1990-2001; now at Evixar, Inc.) (F-ZERO)
- Naoto Kubo (Super Mario Odyssey)
- Ryo Nagamatsu (Zelda series)
- Ryoji Yoshitomi (Wario Land 4)
- Satomi Terui (Mario Kart 7)
- Sayako Doi (Animal Crossing: New Horizons)
- Shigetoshi Gohara (Super Mario Odyssey)
- Shiho Fujii (Mario series)
- Shinji Ushiroda (Rhythm Heaven Megamix/Miitopia)
- Shinobu Amayake (1991-1994; now at AMK Music) (Stunt Race FX)
- Shinobu Nagata (Animal Crossing/Mario Kart DS)
- Soshi Abe (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Expansion Pass)
- Soyo Oka (1987-1995; now freelance) (Super Mario Kart)
- Taiju Suzuki (2000-2019; now works for Pretia Technologies) (Super Mario Advance)
- Takeshi Hama (2010-2012; now freelance) (Super Mario 3D Land)
- Taro Bando (F-Zero X)
- Toru Minegishi (The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess/Splatoon series)
- Toshiyuki Sudo (NES Remix)
- Kazumi Totaka (Yoshi's Story/Animal Crossing)
- Yasuaki Iwata (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)
- Yuichi Ozaki (The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX)
- Yukio Kaneoka (Donkey Kong)
- Yumi Takahashi (Animal Crossing: New Horizons)
- Yumiko Kanki (1987-1996; unknown occupation) (F-ZERO)