Yo Goto (b.1958) is recognized as one of the leading composers and educators in the field of wind and percussion music in the United States and Japan. Goto recieved his Bachelor of Music Education degree from Yamagata University, Japan, and studied composition with Shin-ichiro Ikebe at Tokyo Collge of Music, completing a Performance Diploma Course.  As active composer, agganger, and clinician, Goto moved to Texas to study composition with Cindy McTee at University of North Texas (UNT) in 2001. He holds a Master of Music degree in composition and a Master of Music Education degree from UNT. His work, Songs for Wind Ensemble, won the 2011 Sousa/Ostwald Awards held by the American Bandmasters Association. 

  A War in Wonderland a suite for euphonium solo, was commissioned by Mai Kokubo, and premired at her recital in Tokyo on January 24,  2014. As the tittle suggests, this suite is caricature of old-fassioned war; therefore, the euphonium often imitates the sound of the bugles and drums especially in the first movement. The second movement represents a fictitious princess as a victim of the war. In this movement, court music and bugle calls are irrelevantly inserted as if a princess sees a phantom. The bugles and drums call again at the battlefield in the third movemnt, and an easy march is finally transformed to funeral music at the end.