Somei Satoh (Satō Sōmei, 佐藤 聰明; b. Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, January 19, 1947) is a Japanese composer.
In the post-Takemitsu era, Somei Satoh is a Japanese composer of contemporary traditional music (gendai hogaku).
He studied at Nihon University of Art in the early 1970s[1] and is essentially an autodidact in composition.
He wrote his violin concerto for Anne Akiko Meyers.
He lives in Tokyo.