My Take
Most drummers you notice right away — the loud ones, the showboats, the guys who seem to be auditioning even in the middle of a ballad. Hiroyuki Noritake is not that guy, and honestly that's exactly what makes him interesting to me. He came out of Kobe University, which already tells you something: this is a person who thinks about music, not just feels it. Born in Hyogo in 1964, he has spent decades doing the triple thing that almost nobody pulls off — performing, composing, and teaching at the university level — and somehow keeping all three plates spinning without any of them looking like an afterthought. When I think about a drummer who also builds music from scratch and then explains it to students, I imagine someone listening to the whole room while everyone else is just listening to themselves. That's the craft. That quiet, structural intelligence behind every hit. Japan has a lot of working musicians like this — serious, a little invisible, completely irreplaceable — and Noritake feels like one of the real ones.
Overview
Hiroyuki Noritake is a Japanese drummer, composer, and university lecturer born on August 27, 1964, in Kawanishi, Hyogo Prefecture. He graduated from Kobe University and has built a career that spans professional performance, composition, and music education. His official website is dreamscango.com.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Hiroyuki Noritake
- Name (Japanese)
- 則竹裕之
- Reading
- のりたけ ひろゆき
- Born
- August 27, 1964 (age 61)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Dragon (辰)
- Origin
- Kawanishi, Hyogo, Japan
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Active years
- Unknown
- Occupation
- Drummer / Musician / University Lecturer / Composer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Kobe University
- Debut
- Unknown
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttp://www.dreamscango.com/
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%89%87%E7%AB%B9%E8%A3%95%E4%B9%8B
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.