When I was 15, I played him an orchestrated version of Nobuo Uematsu’s To Zanarkand, from the video game Final Fantasy X. In the past, video game music concerts were a promotional novelty, but today they are regular and well-attended billings in venues across the world. Hull might seem a strange place to debut a video game concert, but it makes sense when you consider that one of the trailblazers of video game composition was born here. Hubbard’s video game music was truly pioneering. Conductor Robin Tait also spent several months working on the scores – his first foray into the world of video game music.

Source: The Guardian July 23, 2019 11:03 UTC