Question: Which composer has won multiple awards and has been described as the "John Williams of video game music," and did the score for Azurik: Rise of Perathia?

Context articles: Hitoshi Sakimoto
Takeaki Kunimoto
Jake Kaufman
OverClocked ReMix
Descendants of Erdrick
Azurik: Rise of Perathia
A Composer's Guide to Game Music
Tommy Tallarico
Garry Schyman
Jeremy Soule

Hitoshi Sakimoto (崎元 仁 , Sakimoto Hitoshi , born February 26, 1969) is a Japanese video game music composer and arranger.
 He is best known for scoring "Final Fantasy Tactics" and "Final Fantasy XII", though he has composed soundtracks for over 80 other games.
 He began playing music and video games in elementary school, and began composing video game music for money by the time he was 16.
 Sakimoto's professional career began a few years later in 1988 when he started composing music professionally as a freelancer, as well as programming sound drivers for games.
 Five years and 40 games later, he achieved his first mainstream success with the score to "".
 In 1997, he joined Square and composed for his first international success, the score to "Final Fantasy Tactics".
Takeaki Kunimoto (国本剛章 , "Kunimoto Takeaki" ) is a former composer of video game music.
 He used to work for the Japanese video game developer Hudson Soft.
 With them he would go on to compose several of their most famous early hits, including "Star Soldier", "Milon's Secret Castle", "Mickey Mousecapade" and "Robowarrior".
 In recent years, he has dedicated his time to performing video game music at live houses in Shibuya, as well as releasing several albums containing his video game music material.
Jacob "Jake" Kaufman (also known as virt or virtjk) (born April 3, 1981) is an American video game music composer.
 After starting out creating arrangements and remixes of video game soundtracks, he began his commercial composing career in 2000 with the score to the Game Boy Color port of "Q*bert".
 He continued to compose music for games for the next couple of years, working primarily with handheld video games.
 In 2002, he set up the website VGMix, which hosts video game music remixes, and continues to administrate it.
 His career began to take off over the next few years, resulting in him transitioning jobs into a full-time freelance composer by 2005.
 Since then he has worked on several big-name projects such as "Contra 4", "," "", and "Shovel Knight".
 In early 2015, he and Jessie Seely formed CSP Industries, and launched a Kickstarter for "[NUREN] The New Renaissance", a project that they call "the world's first virtual reality rock opera."
 In late 2015, Kaufman composed and wrote lyrics for "Power Overwhelming", the debut album of parody supergroup Big Bad Bosses.
OverClocked ReMix, also known as OC ReMix and OCR, is a non-commercial organization dedicated to preserving and paying tribute to video game music through arranging and re-interpreting the songs, both with new technology and software and by various traditional means.
 The primary focus of OC ReMix is its website, "ocremix.org", which freely hosts over 3,000 curated fan-made video game music arrangements, information on game music and composers, and resources for aspiring artists.
 In addition to the individual works, called "ReMixes", the site hosts over 70 albums of music, including both albums of arrangements centered on a particular video game, series, or theme, and albums of original compositions for video games.
 The OC ReMix community created the "Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix" soundtrack for Capcom in 2008, and began publishing commercially licensed arrangement albums in 2013.
Descendants of Erdrick is an American video game music cover band based out of Austin, Texas.
 They play arrangements of classic video game music, and are the first video game music cover band to appear in their own video game.
Azurik: Rise of Perathia is an action-adventure game developed by Adrenium Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios in 2001.
 "Azurik" was released early in the Xbox console's life.
 It features a score by game composer Jeremy Soule, with additional music by Julian Soule.
A Composer’s Guide to Game Music is a 2014 book written by Winifred Phillips, a video game composer with over 11 years experience creating music for such games as "", "God of War" and multiple games in the "LittleBigPlanet" franchise.
 Through the use of autobiographical anecdotes, scholarly discussion and practical advice, Phillips explores the creative and technical process of composing music for video games.
 The book was published by The MIT Press on February 14, 2014.
 The book has received many positive reviews and has won multiple awards.
Tommy Tallarico (born February 18, 1968) is an American video game music composer, musician, sound designer, television personality and live show creative director and producer.
 He has worked on over 300 video game titles since the 1990s, has received numerous awards for his contribution to the video game industry.
 Notably, he is the creator of the concert series Video Games Live (VGL), a multi-award-winning symphony orchestra that has played video game music across the world since 2002.
 He also co-hosted the television shows Electric Playground and Reviews on the Run from 1997 until 2006.
 VGL and Tallarico hold several Guinness World Records.
Garry Schyman (born 1954) is an American film, television, and video game music composer.
 He graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in music composition in 1978, and began work in the television industry, writing music for such television series as "Magnum, P.I." and "The A-Team".
 By 1986, he was composing for movies such as "Judgement" and "Hit List".
 At the request of a friend in 1993, he composed the music for the video game "Voyeur", but after creating the music for two more games he left the industry, citing the low budgets and poor quality of video game music at the time.
 He continued to compose for film and television, only to return to video games for 2005's "Destroy All Humans!
".
 Finding that in his absence the quality and perceived importance of video game music had risen substantially, he has since composed for several games, writing the scores to "BioShock" and "Dante's Inferno" among others.
 He still composes for film however, his latest being "Brush with Danger" directed by young "Indonesian" director "Livi Zheng".
 He has won numerous awards for his video game scores, including several "soundtrack of the year" awards.
 Throughout his career, he has worked on over 25 television shows, 10 films, and 13 video games.
Jeremy Soule ( ; born December 19, 1975 in Keokuk, Iowa) is an American composer of soundtracks for film, television and video games.
 He has won multiple awards and has been described as the "John Williams of video game music" and "a model of success" for Western composers.
 He has composed soundtracks for over 60 games and over a dozen other works during his career.
 He is best known for his work in "The Elder Scrolls" and "Guild Wars" series, and several other top-selling titles such as "Total Annihilation", "Neverwinter Nights", "Dungeon Siege", "", and "Harry Potter".