Conductor Arnie Roth is a Grammy Award–winning artist known in the world of video game music for his work with Nobuo Uematsu and Square Enix Ltd as music director, producer, and conductor of Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy, Dear Friends: Music from Final Fantasy, and Voices: Music from FINAL FANTASY. He was chosen to conduct a series of symphonic concerts based on the music of various video game series in Cologne with the WDR Radio Orchestra, including Symphonic Fantasies, Symphonic Shades, and Symphonic Odysseys. Mr. Roth is equally at home in the areas of film and composition and was the winner of the Best Score Award at the 2003 DVD Premier Awards and nominated for an Emmy Award for his original song “Shine” from the Mattel movie Barbie in The 12 Dancing Princesses.

Mr. Roth has produced dozens of best-selling CDs on the American Gramophone, JVC, Mattel, Warner Bros., Sony, Koch, Razor & Tie, AWR Records, and Square Enix recording labels. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut in 2009.