Yoshihisa Taira
Yoshihisa Taira | |
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平 義久 | |
 Portrait by Fernand Michaud, 1984 | |
| Born | March 3, 1937 Tokyo, Japan |
| Died | March 13, 2005 (aged 67) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Composer |
Yoshihisa Taira (or Taïra) (平 義久, Taira Yoshihisa; 3 March 1937 – 13 March 2005) was a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music primarily active in France. Grove Music Online remarks that "His treatment of time and space, sonority, poetic lyricism, silence [...] were derived from traditional Japanese music and art, and are compatible with a French modernist aesthetic".[1]
Biography
Yoshihisa Taïra was born in Tokyo on 3 March 1937.[1] Initially, he attended the Tokyo University of the Arts, studying composition under Tomojirō Ikenouchi, and graduating in 1965.[1] He then arrived in France to study at the Conservatoire de Paris; his teachers there included André Jolivet, Henri Dutilleux, Olivier Messiaen,[1] Taïra also studied with Iannis Xenakis.[2]
He was a composition lecturer at the École Normale de Musique in Paris.[1] Among his best-known students at École Normale were Chien-Hui Hung, Mansoor Hosseini and Malika Kishino.
Works
Source:[1] 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
- 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 shakuhachi
- 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
- Monodrame IV for vibraphone
References
Citations
Sources
- Herd, Judith (2001). "Taïra, Yoshihisa". Grove Music Online (8th ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.49729. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. (subscription, Wikilibrary access, or UK public library membership required) (subscription, Wikilibrary access, or UK public library membership required)
- Potter, Caroline (2017). "French Musical Style and the Post-War Generation". In Smith, Richard Langham; Potter, Caroline (eds.). French Music Since Berlioz. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing. pp. 331–354.
External links
- Biography(Cdms) Archived 3 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine
- Yoshihisa Taira at Éditions Musicales Transatlantiques
- "Yoshihisa Taira" (biography, works, resources) (in French and English). IRCAM.
- 1937 births
- 2005 deaths
- 20th-century French classical composers
- 20th-century French male composers
- 20th-century French male classical pianists
- 20th-century Japanese classical composers
- 20th-century Japanese classical pianists
- 21st-century French classical composers
- 21st-century French male composers
- 21st-century French male classical pianists
- 21st-century French classical pianists
- 21st-century Japanese classical composers
- 21st-century Japanese classical pianists
- Academic staff of the École Normale de Musique de Paris
- Composers for piano
- Composers from Tokyo
- French male classical composers
- Japanese emigrants to France
- Japanese male classical composers
- Japanese male classical pianists
- 20th-century Japanese male composers