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Yoshihisa Taira
12+ albums
contemporary classicaljapanesecomposerfrenchClassical
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Yoshihisa Taira (平義久) (1937-2005) was a Japanese-born French composer. Taira studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts. He arrived in France in 1966 and studied at the Conservatoire de Paris. 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. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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Solo Migration (Modern Music for Solo Violin)
Kroumata Percussion Ensemble
20 ans de Musique Contemporaine a Metz (Digitally Remastered)
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David Friedmann, David Samuels, Maki Ishii, Steve Reich & Yoshihisa Taira: Jazz - Minimal - Avantgarde
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The Kroumata Percussion Ensemble
Roland Auzet: Percussions(S)
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Hiérophonie V
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Tribute To Noguchi
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Natsuda / Nodaira / Hosokawa: Japanese Saxophone Music
The Contemporary Music of Japan
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Scelsi, G.: Hyxos / Naviner, J.-Y.: D'Une Pluie La Couleur / Korelis, P.: Cronos Ii / Lersy, R.: A La Memoire De Chagall
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