Composer concert pianist and conductor, graduated in composition from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. In 1978, he went to Paris and continued his studies at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.

In 1994 he organized Tokyo Sinfonietta, specializing in contemporary music, and he had a position of its first musical director between 1994 and 1999. He performed the world premiere’s works of P.Manoury, G. Benjamin, Y. Matsudaira’s works, G. Ligeti, T. Takemitsu.

To date, Mr. Nodaïra has composed over eighty works for orchestra, opera, chamber ensemble, and solo instruments commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, IRCAM, the Deutche Simfonie Orchester Berlin, the National Theatre of Japan... He composed Fire strings, concerto for electric guitar and orchestra premiered by Steve Vai in 2002, the first opera Madrugada (with a libretto by Barry Gifford), premiered under the baton of Kent Nagano in Germany in 2005, and recently, he composed《Iki-no-michi for saxophone and computer at IRCAM, Paris’s Pompidou Center in 2012.

Mr. Nodaïra has received many prizes: the Otaka Award (1995 and 2013), the Education Minister’s Art Encourage Prize for Freshmen (1996), the Suntory Musical Award (2004), Art Encourage Prize offered by the Ministry of Education and Culture (2005). He received the purple ribbon from the Japanese government in 2012.

Mr. Nodaïra is a professor at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (since 2009). He is also artistic director of the concert hall AOI of Shizuoka city.