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Yoshihisa Taira

was a Japanese-born French composer. Biography 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

was a Japanese-born French composer. Biography 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. Works Taira’s works are partially published by Éditions Musicales Transatlantiques. Orchestra *Hiérophonie III *Stratus for flute, harp and strings ensemble *Chromophonie *Sonomorphie III *Méditations *Trans-apparence *Erosion I for flute and orchestra *Moksa, vimoksa *Tourbillon for 6 percussionists and orchestra *Polyèdre Chamber music *Hiérophonie I for 4 cellos *Hiérophonie II for 15 instruments *Fusion for 2 flutists and 3 percussionists *Stratus for harp and flute *Dioptase for three strings *Radiance for solo piano and 13 instruments *Eveil for oboe and harp *Interférences I for and cellos *Clea for 12 strings *Dimorphie for 2 percussions *Fu-mon for 4 flutes *Res

Era
Post-War
Lived
1937–2005
From
France
Born in
Tokyo · died Paris
Known as
composer, university teacher
Instruments
piano

Contemporaries

Composers of the same nationality whose working lives overlapped — computed across all 11,984 dated composers in this library, not taken from any single article.