Tomoki was born in Osaka, Japan, and lived the majority of his youth in Sydney, Australia. During his time in Sydney, he began taking piano and composition lessons at the age of 14. He studied piano under Ms. Gibney, and composition with Trevor Pearce and William (Bill) Motzing at the Sydney Conservatorium, University of Sydney. In 2011, he was selected as one of the 8 composers to be a part of the ’Composer’s Institute' at Berklee College of Music. He began his studies at the Koyo Conservatory of Music and graduated in 2012 with professional and master diplomas in music composition and theory. In 2013, he continued his studies with a concentration in Film Scoring at Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA where he received a scholarship in composition and piano-performance.

Tomoki has since worked on the music for various video games and motion pictures including 'I Am Setsuna', 'Soulcalibur V', 'ARK IX' and 'Steins;Gate'. In 2011, he debuted as a video game composer with 'Soulcalibur V' at the age of 16. In 2013, he debuted as an anime composer with 'ARK IX'. In April of the same year, he collaborated with Grammy-nominated composer, Austin Wintory as part of the album, 'Monaco/Gentleman's Private Collection'. Later that year, he worked on the cinematic music for ‘Majin Station’, a game developed by Level-5 and Razest. In 2014, Tomoki was announced as one of the co-composers to be working on the music for ‘Project Phoenix’, an upcoming game developed by Creative Intelligence Arts alongside legendary composer, Nobuo Uematsu. He has also worked as an orchestrator for music commissioned by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for concert, 'Symphony of Legends: Video Games Unplugged' , and as an arranger for animated series, 'Steins;Gate’. In 2016, he worked on the soundtrack for ‘I Am Setsuna’ , a new JRPG game developed by Tokyo RPG Factory and published by Square Enix. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.