| Motoyuki Shitanda | |
| Birth Date: | 26 August 1952 |
| Birth Place: | Osaka prefecture |
| Othername: | 四反田 素幸 |
| Occupation: | composer, music teacher, musicologist and conductor |
is a contemporary Japanese composer, music teacher, musicologist and conductor.
Shitanda studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts under Mareo Ishiketa (石桁眞禮生), Toshiro Mayuzumi and Kenjiro Urata (浦田健次郎) graduating in 1979 with a degree in music composition.[1] He is currently professor at Akita University where he teaches composition. Also, he is part-time lecturer at Seirei Women's Junior College in Akita and guest lecturer at Trinity College of Music in London.
He has received several awards and distinctions including 1st prize in the 1985 Sasagawa Award Music Composition Competition for Festal March (1984), and 1st prize in the 1993 Asahi Composition Award for (Sketch of Sound) (1990).[1] Shitanda is a member of the Japan Federation of Composers and Bandmasters Academic Society of Japan (Academic Society of Japan for Winds Percussion and Band).