Toshifumi Hinata

Biography

Toshifumi Hinata, born in Tokyo, Japan in 1955, is a Japanese ambient and new-age composer and pianist. Classically trained in the United States, he debuted with 'Sarah's Crime' in 1985, weaving synthesizers with piano and strings, and followed it with 'Reality in Love' and 'Story'. He is best known in Japan for television drama scores including 'Tokyo Love Story', and internationally for the renewed attention to his 1980s recordings, notably the compilation 'Broken Belief' and the widely streamed piano piece 'Reflections'.