澤野弘之 (Hiroyuki Sawano)

Hiroyuki Sawano is a Japanese composer, producer, and musician born in Tokyo on September 12, 1980. He began playing piano as a child and later studied composition, arrangement, orchestration, and piano under Nobuchika Tsuboi. Active as a composer since the mid-2000s, he built his career primarily writing music for anime and film, becoming one of the most recognizable voices in Japanese screen scoring.

Sawano is best known for his soundtrack work on major anime series such as Attack on Titan, Nanatsu no Taizai, and Owari no Seraph, where his music combines orchestral grandeur with electronic textures, choral and vocal arrangements, and dramatic, cinematic builds. Tracks like «Call of Silence», «Vogel im Käfig», and the Attack on Titan theme material demonstrate his signature style of blending classical instrumentation with rock and electronic elements to heighten emotional and action-driven storytelling.

Beyond his scoring work, Sawano runs his own company VV-ALKLINE after being represented by Legendoor between 2006 and 2017. He also leads two vocal-focused projects: SawanoHiroyuki[nZk], launched in 2014 to spotlight collaborations with vocalists on his more song-oriented compositions, and NAQT VANE, formed in 2022 with singer Harukaze. Across these projects and his film and TV scores, Sawano has become a defining figure in contemporary Japanese soundtrack composition, admired for his sweeping, emotionally charged sound.