Japanese composer Moto Osada's music has been described as "individual and original" by the German newspaper Frankfuter Rundschau and "fascinating" by the New York Concert Review. Remarkable for its unique blend of harmonic textures, Mr. Osada's music often draws on Japanese themes and traditional instruments to augment Western harmonies. He also frequently incorporates the latest in music technology ranging from electronic equipment to computer-generated sounds.

Mr. Osada has composed for a wide array of musical combinations ranging from works for full orchestra to chamber and solo works for cello, clarinet, guitar, piano, viola, and violin.   He has written extensively for film and television, as well as for the theater and dance media. Increasingly in demand nationally and internationally, his works have been heard in such countries as the United States, Belgium, Germany, Israel, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and his native Japan.

During the 2004-2005 season, Mr. Osada's JoHaKyu for cello and piano will be presented as part of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Centers distinguished Double Exposure series in New York. Later, in April 2005, his Take the Six for marimba and electronics will be featured on the Cutting Edge Concerts, also in New York.

Highlights of past seasons include three recent premieres: In August 2004 cellist Beata S'derberg performed Mr. Osada's Meditation for cello solo in Link'ping, Sweden. In February 2004, the noted Katz-Shteinberg Duo premiered Kaguyama Dance for viola and piano at New York's Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall), and in September 2003, Take the Six for marimba and electronics was presented to great acclaim at Nagano's Raisin Hall in Japan.

Also notable was the April 2003 concert at New York's Klavierhaus devoted entirely to Mr.Osada's s music and aptly entitled Introducing Moto Osada. The evening featured JoHaKyu for cello and piano, Mifune for viola solo, and Atomotium for piano. (Atomotium was subsequently given an encore in March 2004 as part of Klavierhauss Sounds of Modern Japan series.) Mr. Osada's music has also been heard in a live radio broadcast of a Katz-Shteinberg Duo recital at the Jerusalem Music Centre in Israel in 2002; Shmuel Katz performed Mifune for viola solo.

Current projects include Four Nights of Dream, a chamber opera written expressly for Sweden's distinguished International Vadstena Academy and based on the classic novel "Ten Nights of Dream" by Japans revered father of modern literature, Natsume Soseki. The opera is scheduled to be premiered in July 2007 at Sweden's Vadstena Castle with subsequent performances at Stockholm' s Royal Opera House. Mr. Osada has also been commissioned by the prominent Scandinavian contemporary music ensemble the perrls before swOne experience to write a quartet for flute, violin, cello, and piano. Its premiere has been set for the 2005-2006 season in Japan.

A graduate of New York University he is a three-time winner of the schools Composition Award (1996, 1997, and 1998) and the Manhattan School of Music, his recent honors include grants from the ASCAP and the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music. He was also recently selected as a recipient of the 2003 Jerome Composers Commissioning Program by the American Composers Forum. Mr. Osada currently resides in New York.

" [Sachiko Kato] again sat down at the piano to play a substantial work as an encore, a fascinating and original recent opus by Moto Osada called Atomotium" - Anthony Aibel, NEW YORK CONCERT REVIEW (Summer 2004)

"The two [musicians] showed their versatility in solo pieces: Katz with the very original and individual composition for viola solo Mifune by the contemporary Japanese/American composer Moto Osada"- Frankfurter Rundschau (November 27, 2002)

"..fresh and stimulating for European listeners, Mifune for viola solo by Moto Osada. Osada, a Japanese composer who lives in the United States, had dedicated the piece to [the violist] his friend and former classmate Shmuel Katz, and [Katz] performed it with much artistry and insight, and even created the sound of a temple gong on his viola" - Wettrauer. (November 28, 2002)