Career
He is currently represented by Legendoor. Sawano was born in Tokyo, Japan. He began playing piano in elementary school.
From the age of 17 he studied composition, arrangement, orchestration, and piano under Nobuchika Tsuboi.
In 2014 he launched a new vocal song project under the name "SawanoHiroyuki", producing the first album UnChild with Aimer as the vocalist under the name SawanoHiroyuki:Aimer. Since then his songs under this vocal song project have also been used as the opening and ending themes for various anime, including Aldnoah.Zero and Seraph of the End.