ABOUT

Yusei Hata (b.2002) is a New York City based Japanese Composer. He has always been making music, picking up the Piano and Violin from a young age, before entering the world of composition in his early teens. More recently, he has begun to expand beyond his classical background to a more varied musical language.

 

His music currently encompasses a wide range of mediums, from classical concert music, songwriting, film music, and more independent music making. Yusei’s concert works have been performed by numerous people and organizations such as the New York Philharmonic, Contemporaneous, Metropolis Ensemble, and Face the Music. He has written music for students in the School of Visual Arts in their thesis animation films. Furthermore, he is releasing music independently on major streaming platforms under the name Hatyuu.

 

No matter the style or genre, Yusei’s music looks to poke at and touch the many human emotions via melody, harmony, gesture and timing. Stylistically, he is mainly inspired from western classical music, Japanese popular music, and Japanese traditional music. 

 

As an instrumentalist, Yusei plays Violin, Hichiriki, Piano, French Horn, Taiko, and Gaku-Biwa. In addition to western music, he is adept at some Japanese musical traditions, including Gagaku and Kumi-Daiko. 

 

Yusei graduated from The Juilliard School in 2024 with a Bachelors of Music.

 

Hobbies outside of music: Anime, Japanese pop and traditional culture, language learning, world history, going to museums.

 

 

​

​

​