Akira Miyoshi

Akira Miyoshi (三善 晃; January 10, 1933 – 4 October 2013[1]) was a Japanese composer.

He was a child prodigy on the piano, studying with Kozaburo Hirai and Tomojiro Ikenouchi.

He studied French literature at the University of Tokyo,[2] and then studied composition with Henri Challan and Raymond Gallois-Montbrun at the Paris Conservatory from 1955 to 1957.

In 1965, he became a professor at the Toho Gakuen School of Music.

He received the Otaka prize six times for his compositions.