Motoyuki Shitanda

is a contemporary Japanese composer, music teacher, musicologist and conductor.

Biography Shitanda studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts under Mareo Ishiketa (石桁眞禮生), Toshiro Mayuzumi and Kenjiro Urata (浦田健次郎) graduating in 1979 with a degree in music composition. He is currently professor at Akita University where he teaches composition. Also, he is part-time lecturer at Seirei Women's Junior College in Akita and guest lecturer at Trinity College of Music in London.

He has received several awards and distinctions including 1st prize in the 1985 Sasagawa Award Music Composition Competition for Festal March (1984), and 1st prize in the 1993 Asahi Composition Award for (Sketch of Sound) (1990). Shitanda is a member of the Japan Federation of Composers and Bandmasters Academic Society of Japan (Academic Society of Japan for Winds Percussion and Band).

Selected works (1995) (1998) (2000) (2000) (2002) (2003) (2004) (2005)

Orchestra Symphony No.1 (1994) (2003)

Concert band Festal March (フェスタル・マーチ) (1984) March in Blue (マーチ・イン・ブルー) (1988) , Fantasia for Concert Band (1989) (1990)

Concertante Concerto for viola and orchestra (1998) Karavinka (カラヴィンカ), Concerto for (25-string or 20-string) koto with string orchestra, percussion and harp (2008)

Chamber music Pastoral for flute and piano (1992) Fantasy for clarinet solo (1995) for viola and piano (1997) for marimba (2005)

Works for traditional Japanese instruments for koto and marimba (1999) for koto ensemble (1986) for 2 kotos (2004) Two Movements (独奏十七絃のための二章) for solo jūshichi-gen (1983) , Monodrama for male voice and jūshichi-gen (2000); after the short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Choral , Composition for female chorus and chamber orchestra (1981)