Yoshihisa Taira

Yoshihisa Taira (平 義久 Taira Yoshihisa, 3 June 1937 in Tokyo – 13 March 2005 in Paris) was a Japanese-born French composer.

Biography

Taira studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts. He arrived in France in 1966 and studied at the Conservatoire de Paris. Among his teachers were André Jolivet, Henri Dutilleux and Olivier Messiaen.

He was a composition lecturer at the École Normale de Musique in Paris.

Among Taïra’s more known students at École Normale were Chien-Hui Hung, Mansoor Hosseini and Malika Kishino.

Works

Taira's works are partially published by Éditions Musicales Transatlantiques.

Orchestra

Chamber music

Instrumental

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