Yoshihisa Taïra

Yoshihisa Taira (or Taïra) (平義久, Taira Yoshihisa^?, 3 June 1937 in Tokyo – 13 March 2005 in Paris) 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.

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.

Taira's works are partially published by Éditions Musicales Transatlantiques.