Somei Satoh

Somei Satoh (佐藤聰明 Satō Sōmei?); (born in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, January 19, 1947) is a Japanese composer. Satoh is a Japanese composer of contemporary traditional music (gendai hōgaku). His compositions mix Japanese court music with European romanticism and electronic high-tech.[1]

He studied at Nihon University of Art in the early 1970s[2] and is essentially an autodidact in composition.

He wrote his violin concerto for Anne Akiko Meyers.

He currently lives in Tokyo.