Mayu Hirano, Japanese composer as well as sonic sculptor and sonic painter born in Yokohama, lives and works in Paris since 2003. After obtaining the diploma with violin as the main discipline in the music department at Kitakamakura Joshigakuen Junior and Senior High School, Mayu Hirano studies at the Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo Geidai), under Genichi Tsuge in musicology, Hinoharu Matsumoto for harmony, and Yoshio Unno for violin. 

She starts the research in composition largely through autodidacte, first in electronic music before returning to instrumental music. In 2003, she obtained her degree in musicology with a thesis entitled "Physical Experience and Repetitive Music." In 2008, she studied improvisation technique in jazz violin with Didier Lockwood. From then on, she studied composition at the Conservatoire de Boulogne with Jean-Luc Hervé and Yan Maresz. She received the Sacem prize in 2012 and the music diploma in 2013.

In 2013-2015, she joined the Cursus in composition and computer music at IRCAM, where she created Instant Suspendu for accordion and electronics, in diptych with Singularité, for accordion, string quartet, electronics and video, composed for Cursus 2. These pieces explore the perception of time as a sensation and the question of the moment and suspended time, creating an illusion of eternity that summons the temporal infinity by the stretching of the moment through electronics. During these years she was also taught composition with Beat Furrer, Brian Ferneyhough and Chaya Czernowin.