Iwadare was born in
Matsumoto City,
Nagano Prefecture, Japan. He began to compose video game music after years of being involved with university bands. He began composing for
Toaplan, arranging their
arcade video game soundtracks for their
Sega Mega Drive home console ports, notably the Mega Drive version of
Zero Wing (1990), before composing for other companies such as
Game Arts on their
Lunar and
Grandia series. The first award he won was the Best Game Music award, the
Mega Drive/Genesis category for
Lunar: The Silver Star in 1991. He also won the Best Game Music award in the
Sega Saturn Music category for
Grandia in 1997 and in the
Dreamcast category for
Grandia 2 in 2000. Iwadare first composed music for
Tokyo Disney Resort, in addition to Japanese dance programs, television programs, and radio programs. He dreams to have orchestral arrangements of his musical works, which he himself has done several times, as with the
Gyakuten Meets Orchestra arrangements (orchestral arrangements of the
Ace Attorney series music). He was a special guest at the 11th French
Japan Expo that was held in July 2010 in Paris. ==Works==