Yoshihisa Taira (or Taïra) (平 義久) 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

Chamber music

Instrumental