Arnie Roth is one of the famous conductors nowadays, he's a classically trained violinist, composer, and a Grammy award-winning artist, who has established his own production company:
AWR Music Productions.
As Music Director of "the Chicagoland Pops Orchestra", he has composed, arranged and played with many artists: Diana Ross, the three tenors, Art Garfunkel, Josh Groban and Andrea Bocelli, among many others.
After studying classical violin and composition, Arnie Roth performed in many musical styles.
Arnie had interest in the multimedia world and his works extended to the film production area: He produced and conducted music for Robert Altman's film The Company. He has also composed music for many animated films, including Barbie Heart Princess, Barbie, Rapunzel and Barbie: The Nutcracker.
In 2004, he was appointed the music director and conductor of “Dear Friends:Music from Final Fantasy” bringing the Masterworks of Nobuo Uematsu to life.
In 2006 Arnie Roth conducted the "VOICES: Music of Final Fantasy" concert in Tokyo with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. In spring of 2006 he was appointed the principal conductor and music director of "PLAY! A Video Game Symphony". The premiere performance of the world-wide concert tour was with the Chicagoland Pops Orchestra and featured music from blockbuster video games such as Final Fantasy, World of Warcraft, Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and Battlefield . Mr. Roth
conducted "PLAY!" with many international orchestras including the National Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestras.
Arnie Roth has also led the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra for an interpretation of themes from the Final Fantasy. He premiered “Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY“ in December 2007, in Sweden.
The long lasting legacy from final fantasy will be always inspiring for further groundbreaking projects, especially when it comes to its fabulous music scores, that would keep attracting younger and more enthusiastic audience, as Sir Arnie Roth commented during an interview that appeared on
wired.com
“With classical audiences, you always have some 70- or 80-year old who starts coughing at the end of a very quiet triple piano, and all of a sudden, it’s ruined. A classical audience likes to leave before the concert is over. They want to get their cars out of the lot first...Final Fantasy fans don’t want to go home”
