He studied composition under Yoshio Hasegawa, Akira Kitamura, Hajime Kaburagi, Kiyohiko Kishima, and Tsuyoshi Yanagisawa; piano under Shihoko Uno, Kazuko Yasukawa, Michiko Jackson; conducting under Shigenobu Yamaoka and Konstantin D.
From 1998, he has been active as an orchestral conductor and arranger for symphonic live series started firstly for Akina Nakamori, in the recent years by public well known for Mai Kuraki, Aska and Luna Sea.
[clarification needed] Since the 2000s, he started to release his original albums under subtitles "Densetsu" and "Eternal Animation Healing" music; composed soundtracks for number of domestic television series and theatrical movies in Shanghai, Singapore and Japan.
[5] In 2002, Ikuro's instrumental piece "Deep Sea" was used as background music for the South Korean television series Winter Sonata.
[10] In 2021, Ikuro released his first vocal recording song under EP title "Yokohama Star Dust" in digital format.