Ichiro Nodaira is a composer, concert pianist and conductor. He graduated in composition from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. In 1978, he went to Paris and continued his studies at the Paris Conservatoire.

Nodaira has performed as piano soloist with many leading orchestras, and in chamber music with a number of prominent artists. He has written over a hundred works for orchestra, opera, chamber ensemble, and solo instruments and been awarded numerous competition prizes: he received the Purple Ribbon from the Japanese government in 2012. Ichiro Nodaira is a professor of composition at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and artistic director of the concert hall AOI of Shizuoka city.