Kentaro Sato


Kentaro Sato, aka Ken-P, is an award-winning composer/conductor/orchestrator/clinician of media music and concert music. His works have been broadcast, performed, and recorded in North and South America, Asia, and Europe by well-known groups including the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra and Sydney Symphony Orchestra. In 2005, he was appointed a resident composer/assistant conductor of the Torrance Symphony. He is also a frequent guest conductor and lecturer for various workshops and reading sessions on choral music and composition/orchestration around the world.
Sato was born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan, known as the city of music and instruments. He holds a Master of Music in Conducting with Distinction and a Bachelor of Music in Media and Commercial Writing from California State University, Northridge. In addition to his degree in Music, he also holds degree in Cinema from Santa Monica College.

Musical style

His choral works, especially a cappella works, are full of rich and colorful harmony with sense of movement provided by individually moving vocal lines within closely voiced harmony. His works for symphony usually have bright and brilliant orchestration with clear sense of melody which is reflection of experience as a composer/orchestrator in Hollywood.

Musical works

Commercial music