Philippe Leroux
Philippe Leroux is a French composer living in Montreal, Quebec, who has been identified as "one of the most important composers in contemporary music."
Biography
Leroux was born in Boulogne-Billancourt. He studied composition starting in 1978 with Ivo Malec, Claude Ballif, Pierre Schaeffer, and Guy Rebeil at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, where he obtained three first prizes. He studied at both the Groupe de Recherches Musicales and at IRCAM during this period. He was selected for a residency at the French Academy in Rome from 1993 to 1995.
From 2001 to 2006 he was a composition teacher at IRCAM, in the Cursus d’Informatique Musicale programme. Since 2011 he has been an associate professor in composition at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University.
Selected works
Tourner for solo percussion and 10 instrumentsEnvers IV for symphony orchestraPostlude à l'Épais for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and pianoDe l'imitation for saxophone quartet and electronicsWhite face for string quartetNomadic Sounds for a cappella choirQuid sit musicus for 4 voices, guitar, cello, and electronicsTotal SOLo for 28 instrumentsAiles for baritone and 15 instrumentsDe l'itération for 6 percussionists...Ami...chemin...oser...vie... for 15 instrumentsExtended Apocalypsis for 4 voices, 16 instruments, electronics, and video ad libitum.Envers Symphonie for symphony orchestraPourquoi? for 4 voices and orchestraObjets trouvés...posés acousmaticAMA for solo pianoL’unique trait de pinceau for saxophone and symphony orchestraDe la texture for 8 instrumentsPour que les êtres ne soient pas traités comme des marchandises for 12 mixed voices, orchestra, and ad libitum electronicsm'M concerto grosso for symphony orchestraDu souffle for saxophone quartetAirs for saxophone and percussionVoi for voice, 6 instruments, and electronicsLes Uns for 3 percussionistsDe la Vitesse for 6 percussionistsSPP for soprano saxophone and pianoPlus loin for symphony orchestraM.É. acousmaticM for 2 pianos, 2 percussion and electronicsAAA for 7 instrumentsSouffles for wind quintetAller for solo violin and 16 instrumentsContinuo for quintetPPP for flute and pianoAIR for B♭ clarinet and percussionAIR-RÉ for violin and percussionJe brûle, dit-elle un jour à un camarade for voice