Yoshihisa Taira (or Taïra) (平 義久, Taira Yoshihisa, 3 June 1937 – 13 March 2005) was a Japanese-born French composer.
Yoshihisa Taira | |
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平 義久, | |
Born | Tokyo, Japan | June 3, 1937
Died | March 13, 2005 Paris, France | (aged 67)
Other names | Taïra |
Education | Tokyo University of the Arts, Conservatoire de Paris, École Normale de Musique |
Occupation | composer |
Yoshihisa Taïra was born in Tokyo in 1937. Initially, he studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts. He arrived in France in 1966 where he then 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 his best-known students at École Normale were Chien-Hui Hung, Mansoor Hosseini and Malika Kishino.
Taïra died in Paris, in March 2005.
Taira's works are partially published by Éditions Musicales Transatlantiques.