Biography

COMPOSER & ARRANGER · SAPPORO, JAPAN

January M Itzki is a Japanese composer and arranger based in Sapporo, creating orchestral music that reaches beyond Japan.

His work has reached #13 on Canada’s iTunes Instrumental Top Songs, while his music has achieved 1,000,000+ UGC & short-video views, certified by TuneCore Japan.

His orchestral works explore northern landscapes, memory, and the resonance of quiet emotion.

Raised in Sapporo, the host city of the 1972 Winter Olympics, he developed a musical sensibility shaped by northern light and long winters.

Based in Sapporo, his music traces a bridge between Sapporo and Montréal — a musical journey across distance, memory and time.

From his creative base in Sapporo, he brings his music directly to listeners beyond Japan through YouTube and Bandcamp. Rooted in the north and reaching across borders, his work carries this dialogue between place, memory and distance to an international audience.