M.A. in Composition, Graduate School of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts. He won the first prize in the Cruise International Piano Conference Composition Competition, the Silk Road Orchestral Composition Competition, the Japan Symphony Foundation Composition Awards (17th and 23rd), and the Agency for Cultural Affairs Award for Creative Works for Performing Arts (choral suite). He won the 16th Asahi Composition Award in both the wind band and chorus categories simultaneously. His prize-winning work was selected as the compulsory piece for the 2006 All-Japan Band Competition and JCA National Choral Competition. He won the first prize at the 2nd Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra Composition Competition and the 21st Akutagawa Composition Award. He studied composition under Masao Homma, Akira Kitamura, Yoshio Hachimura, Hiroaki Minami, Teizo Matsumura, and Toshiro Mayuzumi. He is currently a professor at Tokyo Gakugei University, a board member of Japan Society for Contemporary Music and vice president of The Japan Federation of Composers Inc.. His major works include Prelude to an Imaginary Legend, Figures in the Air – for piano and orchestra, Concerto for orchestra, Passacaglia without the theme for Orchestra, SPANDA  for Vibraphone and Orchestra, Suite for Female Chorus “The Song of Fourteen Line” and “Four Spring Songs” (Zen-On Music Publisher), suite for female chorus “Angels for Everything,” “Susuki to Ohisama,” “Misuzu’s Hand Bascket” (edition KAWAI), “Aikotoba,” “Zokibayashi ga Sakenderu,” “On the Earth” (Kyoiku Geijutsu Sha).