Rocky Kitamura

Combining his lifelong passions for music and movies, Rocky Kitamura brings a unique set of skills and dedication to his work as a composer of scores for films, television, and commercials. Kitamura got his start in music at just six-years-old when he learned to play classical piano. As he grew up, he increasingly fell in love with music of all forms, and set out to gain expertise in a variety of musical genres. He has studied at several leading music institutions including the Berklee School of Music in Boston, Loyola Marymount University (where he studied classical piano and composition), and UCLA (where he studied Film Scoring). An avid ethnomusicologist, Kitamura has written and performed in a variety of styles ranging from classical, to rock, to pop, and is also trained in such specialized world music genres as Balinese Gamelan, African Drumming and Japanese classical drumming.