Hiroyuki Noritake

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.

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Hiroyuki Noritake is a Japanese drummer, composer, and university lecturer born on August 27, 1964, in Kawanishi, Hyogo Prefecture. He studied at Kobe University, joined the jazz-fusion band T-Square in 1985, and has built a career that spans professional performance, composition, and music education. His official website is dreamscango.com.

Name (English)

Hiroyuki Noritake

Name (Japanese)

則竹裕之

Reading

のりたけ ひろゆき

Born

August 27, 1964 (age 62)

Origin

Kawanishi, Hyogo, Japan

Occupation

Drummer / Musician / University Lecturer / Composer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Dragon

Active years

1985 -

University

Kobe University

• Official sitehttp://www.dreamscango.com/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%89%87%E7%AB%B9%E8%A3%95%E4%B9%8B
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11397029

Tags

• From Hyogo Prefecture
• Drummer
• Musician
• University Lecturer

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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