Philippe Leroux
Philippe Leroux is a French composer living in Montréal, Québec, 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 1993-1995.
From 2001-2006 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 instruments
- Envers IV for symphony orchestra
- Postlude à l'Épais for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano
- De l'imitation for saxophone quartet and electronics
- White face for string quartet
- Nomadic Sounds for a capella choir
- Quid sit musicus for 4 voices, guitar, cello, and electronics
- Total SOLo for 28 instruments
- Ailes for baritone and 15 instruments
- De l'itération for 6 percussionists
- ...Ami...chemin...oser...vie... for 15 instruments
- Extended Apocalypsis for 4 voices, 16 instruments, electronics, and video ad libitum.
- Envers Symphonie for symphony orchestra
- Pourquoi? for 4 voices and orchestra
- Objets trouvés...posés acousmatic
- AMA for solo piano
- L’unique trait de pinceau for saxophone and symphony orchestra
- De la texture for 8 instruments
- Pour que les êtres ne soient pas traités comme des marchandises for 12 mixed voices, orchestra, and ad libitum electronics
- m'M concerto grosso for symphony orchestra
- Du souffle for saxophone quartet
- Airs for saxophone and percussion
- Voi for voice, 6 instruments, and electronics
- Les Uns for 3 percussionists
- De la Vitesse for 6 percussionists
- SPP for soprano saxophone and piano
- Plus loin for symphony orchestra
- M.É. acousmatic
- M for 2 pianos, 2 percussion and electronics
- AAA for 7 instruments
- Souffles for wind quintet
- Aller for solo violin and 16 instruments
- Continuo for quintet
- PPP for flute and piano
- AIR for Bb clarinet and percussion
- AIR-RÉ for violin and percussion
