Eminence is about changing the perceptions of symphonic music. It is about opening orchestras up to a wider audience, challenging the notions of classical music and reviving its popularity. Eminence serves to champion the young musical artist in the international society. Eminence is what is needed in today’s musical world.

– Hiroaki Yura, Founder and Director of the Eminence Group.

Eminence, where are they going?

Eminence is an innovative group that have their sights set big. Eminence shares two equally important prospects: to help popularize the niche, and help disseminate respectable music of all kinds to the public. Since their inception in 2003, Eminence has soared both domestically and internationally, performing and recording various genres of music, from video game soundtracks and independent songs to movie scores and classical music.

Eminence not only wishes to help out talented musicians, but also to revitalise the current state of symphonic music and the public’s perception towards it. They wish to encourage more people to get out and see live music that they haven’t heard before.

Like the Beatles, creating musical history is about breaking new ground, doing what hasn’t been done before.

The Vision

The aim of this new-wave contemporary Orchestra is to inject something bold, dynamic and fresh, into something that’s slowly losing its general appeal.

We wish to challenge ideas of what orchestral music is all about, by aligning it to something familiar to younger audiences. We want young people to really “hear” orchestral music. We believe in the strength of this music and that younger people will really connect with it.

Symphonic music must not be left to languish in dusty corners or to be appreciated only by an older demographic. It needs to find a new face and be aggressively showcased into expanded genres and permutations in order to capture a larger audience. This said we do not want to limit our audience to young people, only to encourage them to join in as well as to expand the audience.

We feel passionately that young people must experience a wide range of entertainment frontiers. This music can be a catalyst for younger people to explore symphonic music in more depth and appreciate it better. This is not to devalue Bach and Beethoven, but take the best from the past, build on it and position it in a contemporary setting. This is the Silverchair of Classical!

Help Eminence realize their dreams and potential!

Eminence desires to reach out to everyone interested in diversity and creativity. However, running such a pioneering service isn’t easy, especially for an organisation that isn’t a purely profit making exercise, so Eminence is constantly looking for sponsors who wish to help them achieve their aims.

If you wish to help Eminence along the journey, please feel free to contact us.

Eminent Capabilities

Not exclusive to its performing heritage, Eminence has extended its talents to a multitude of media frontiers. The industry’s leading names have collaborated and recorded with Eminence, with recognition of their expertise in particularly the video game and anime music arena. Industry names including Bandai Namco Games Inc., Sega, KOEI, Blizzard Entertainment, and GONZO have all been beneficiaries of the Eminence experience.

Critically acclaimed for the rich sound and quality of their recordings, Eminence fervently believes that their skills demonstrated in performance should be transferable, magnified and manipulated to suit recordings and projects of all nature. There is no typical ‘Eminence’ sound as all our recordings are distinctly individual, but all recordings enshrine the delicacy and principle of Eminence mastery and prestige.

Eminence offers its services to those who desire quality and efficiency with gifted musicians and some of the finest recording services available in the world. For a list of all previous recordings where Eminence has been a prime contributor, please consult the ‘History’ page.

For a list of recording services available, please consult the ‘Services’ page.