Jun Chikuma

{{short description|Japanese music composer and musician|bot=PearBOT 5}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Jun Chikuma

| image =

| caption =

| alias = {{ubl|June Chikuma|Chiki}}

| native_name = 竹間淳{{refn|name=katakana|group=nb|She often writes her first name in katakana, i.e. {{Nihongo|Jun Chikuma|竹間 ジュン|Chikuma Jun}}.{{cite web |url=http://www.arab-music.com/june_chikuma.html |title=Chikuma Jun purofiiru |script-title=ja:竹間ジュン・プロフィール |trans-title=Jun Chikuma profile |language=Japanese |publisher=Arab-music.com |access-date=September 17, 2018}}}}

| native_name_lang = ja

| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist

| birth_date =

| birth_place = Japan

| instrument = {{flatlist|

• Piano
• ney
• riq

}}

| genre = {{flatlist|

• Chiptune
• video game music
• Arabic music

}}

| occupation = {{flatlist|

• Musician
• composer
• arranger

}}

| years_active = 1985–present

}}

{{Nihongo|Jun Chikuma|竹間 淳|Chikuma Jun}} is a Japanese music composer and musician. She is most known for her various contributions to the Bomberman series, amongst other video game soundtracks.{{cite AV media notes |title=Ten Plants |others=Various Artists |year=1998 |type=booklet |page=16 |language=Japanese |publisher=Biosphere Records}}

She has studied ney performance and Tunisian style composition under professors Slah Manaa, Ali Sriti and Zakia Hannashi at l'Institut Superieur de la Musique de Tunis, and studied riq under Haytham Farghaly of the same institute.{{cite web |url=http://www.arab-music.com/june_chikuma_e.html |title=Jun Chiki Chikuma, Nay player and Composer |publisher=Arab-music.com |access-date=September 17, 2018}} She currently curates arab-music.com, and has also made music for many T.V. shows, films and commercials. She is also a part-time lecturer at Kokushikan University, and has since performed many concerts with the classical Arabic music ensemble Le Club Bachraf, with oud player Yoshiko Matsuda and darbuka player Takako Nomiya.{{cite web |url=http://www.nact.jp/exhibition_special/2014/power_of_images/weekend/ |title=Imēji no chikara - Kokuritsu Minzoku-gaku Hakubutsukan korekushon ni saguru: Kaimaku kinen ibento miru・kiku・asobu imēji no chikara uiikuendo |script-title=ja:「イメージの力－国立民族学博物館コレクションにさぐる」開幕記念イベント みる・きく・あそぶ イメージの力ウィークエンド |trans-title=The Power of Image — National Ethnographic Museum Collection: Opening Event — See, Listen, Play — The Power of Image Weekend |language=Japanese |date=2014 |publisher=The National Art Center, Tokyo |access-date=September 17, 2018}}