Yoshihisa Taira
Encyclopedia
was a Japanese
-born French
composer
.
. Among his teachers were André Jolivet
, Henri Dutilleux
and Olivier Messiaen
.
In 1971 he won the Prix Lili Boulanger
, in 1974 the Grand Prix de Composition de la SACEM, in 1985 the Prix Florent Schmidt from the Académie des Beaux Arts. His works have been performed by the main institutions and festivals of contemporary music: Royan, Metz, Orleans, Strasburg, Avignon, Tokyo, New York, Darmstadt, Berlin, Amsterdam, Tanglewood and many others."
He was a composition lecturer at the École Normale de Musique in Paris.
Japanese people
The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...
-born French
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
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Biography
"Taira studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts. He arrived in France in 1966 and studied at the Conservatoire de ParisConservatoire de Paris
The Conservatoire de Paris is a college of music and dance founded in 1795, now situated in the avenue Jean Jaurès in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, France...
. Among his teachers were André Jolivet
André Jolivet
André Jolivet was a French composer. Known for his devotion to French culture and musical thought, Jolivet's music draws on his interest in acoustics and atonality as well as both ancient and modern influences in music, particularly on instruments used in ancient times...
, Henri Dutilleux
Henri Dutilleux
Henri Dutilleux is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own...
and Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...
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In 1971 he won the Prix Lili Boulanger
Lili Boulanger
Lili Boulanger was a French composer, the younger sister of the noted composer and composition teacher Nadia Boulanger.-Early years:A Parisian-born child prodigy, who was good at piano...
, in 1974 the Grand Prix de Composition de la SACEM, in 1985 the Prix Florent Schmidt from the Académie des Beaux Arts. His works have been performed by the main institutions and festivals of contemporary music: Royan, Metz, Orleans, Strasburg, Avignon, Tokyo, New York, Darmstadt, Berlin, Amsterdam, Tanglewood and many others."
He was a composition lecturer at the École Normale de Musique in Paris.
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 percussionnists
- 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
- Ressac for 13 instruments
- Pénombres I for 2 guitars and 12 strings
- Pénombres II for double bass and piano
- Synchronie for 2 flutes or flute and shakuhachiShakuhachiThe is a Japanese end-blown flute. It is traditionally made of bamboo, but versions now exist in ABS and hardwoods. It was used by the monks of the Fuke school of Zen Buddhism in the practice of...
- Pénombres III for harp and small ensemble
- Pénombres V for viola and piano (1996)
- Pénombres VI for alto saxophone and piano
- Flautissimo for 32 flutes
- Aïalos for G flute and harp
- Synergie for 2 double basses
Instrumental
- Sonate for violin
- Sonate for viola
- Sonomorphie I for piano
- Sublimation for harp
- Hiérophonie IV for 4 flutes (one performer)
- Maya for bass flute in C or alto flute in G
- Convergence I for marimba
- Convergence II for double bass
- Convergence III for violin
- Cadenza I for flute
- Monodrame I for percussion
- Monodrame II for bassoon
- Monodrame III for guitar