Ryo Noda

is a Japanese composer and musician who has written classical works for the saxophone. He developed Musico-Kinetic Therapy, a therapy method used in NeuroRehabilitation which blends physiology, medicine, and music. He has received accolades, including the SACEM Composition Prize.

History Noda was born in 1948 in Amagasaki, Japan. He graduated from the Osaka College of Music as a saxophonist, then pursued advanced music studies at Northwestern University under Frederick Hemke and at the Bordeaux Conservatory under Jean-Marie Londeix. He is a composer of Japanese saxophone music, and his repertoire also includes Western music of the baroque, classical, and romantic periods.

He was twice awarded the Osaka City Art Festival Prize, and in 1986, he won the Osaka Prefecture Gold Award. He received the Grand Prix of the Yamaha Electone Festival in 1989 and the SACEM Composition Prize in 1973.

Selected works Noda's saxophone compositions include: Gen – Concerto for Alto Saxophone Improvisation I, II, and III – based on shakuhachi playing La Nuit de Dinant Mai – Paris 1975, for solo saxophone Murasaki No Fuchi – for saxophone duet (A–A or S–T) Phoenix Requiem (Shin Én) – for solo saxophone