Square Enix Announces Stream for Piano Covers of Game Songs

Square Enix announced an upcoming stream called Square Enix Music Cover Special Live ~Piano~, which will focus on covers of songs taken from famous games. It will air at at 2am PT/5am ET on March 7, 2025. 

Five performers will appear at the event. Composers Kenji Ito and Yoko Shimomura will both appear. The former is known for work on SaGa games, with Ito’s most recent tracks appearing in SaGa Emerald Beyond and Romancing SaGa Re;univerSe. Shimomura worked on many Suqare Enix series, such as Front Mission, Kingdom Hearts, and Parasite Eve. She is also known for her Mario & Luigi songs. The three pianists who will perform are Hiroyuki Nakayama, Ryota Kikuchi, and Yui Morishita. All of them appeared on the Square Enix Music channel performing piano covers before.

Here’s the teaser trailer for the Square Enix Music Cover Special Live ~Piano~ stream of covers of various game songs. 

The official placeholder is also already live for the performances:

Square Enix regularly releases piano covers of songs from games online. One of the last performances involved Yui Morishita playing “One-Winged Angel” from FFVII. As mentioned earlier, Morishita will perform during the stream as well.

This is one of multiple musical performances planned. Another is the NieR: Automata Music Special Live Stream and a Piano Journeys concert. That showed up on February 21, 2025. However, you only have until February 25, 2025 to watch it.

The Square Enix Music Cover Special Live ~Piano~ performance stream will appear at 2am PT/5am ET on March 7, 2025.