Composers

Philippe Leroux was born in Boulogne Billancourt (France) on september 24th, 1959. In 1978 he entered the Paris Conservatory (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique), studied with Ivo Malec, Claude Ballif, Pierre Schäeffer and Guy Reibel and obtained three first prizes. Meanwhile, he followed classes with Olivier Messiaen, Franco Donatoni, Betsy Jolas, Jean-Claude Eloy and Iannis Xénakis.
In 1993 he was selected to enter the Villa Medicis in Rome for two years, where he remained until 1995.

His compositional output (about seventy works to date) includes symphonic, vocal, electronic, acousmatic and chamber music. His works are the result of various commissionners, with among them the French Ministry of Culture, Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Südwestfunk Baden Baden, Orchestre National de Lorraine, Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, IRCAM, Canada Arts Council, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne de Montreal, Koussevitsky Foundation, les Percussions de Strasbourg, les Solistes XXI, Avanta ensemble, Ensemble 2e2m, Ensemble Court-Circuit, INA-GRM, Ensemble Ictus, Festival Musica, Ensemble BIT 20, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Ensemble Athelas, CIRM, INTEGRA, and several other institutions of international standard.

His music is widely performed in various European festivals and International orchestras such as Donaueschingen, Radio-France Présences (Paris), Agora (Paris), Venice Biennale, Ba th Festival, Festival Musica (Strasbourg), Stockholm ISCM, Barcelona Festival, Musiques en Scènes (Lyon), Festival Manca (Nice), Bergen Festival, Ultima (Oslo) Festival, Tage für Neue Musik (Zürich), BBC Symphony Orchestra (London), Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (Glasgow), Philharmonia Orchestra (London), Czech Philharmony, Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra, Orchestres Symphoniques de Lorraine et de Nice, Klangfrorum Wien, Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, Klangforum Wien, Victoria Symphony Orchestra...

He has received many prizes and awards: Prix Hervé Dugardin, Best contemporary musical creation Award 1996 for (d’)ALLER, SACEM Prize, André Caplet, Nadia and Lili Boulanger, composition prize 2015 of the Fondation Simone et Cino del Duca from the Academy of Fine Arts (Institut de France), Salabert Prize for his piece Apocalypsis and Arthur Honegger Prize (Fondation de France) for his overhall production. Since 2015, he is fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

In addition, Philippe Leroux writes articles on contemporary music, gives lectures and teaches composition at Collège de France, UC Berkeley, Harvard, Grieg Academy (Bergen), Columbia University (New-York), Royal conservatory of Copenhage, Toronto University, Fondation Royaumont, IRCAM, American Conservatoire at Fontainebleau, Paris and Lyon Conservatoires Nationaux Supérieurs, Domaine Forget (Quebec) , Georgia Institute of Technology at Atlanta, Tchaïkovsky Conservatory at Moscow...

From 2001 to 2006 he was a teacher in composition at IRCAM in the frame of the ”Cursus d’Informatique Musicale”. In 2005 and 2006 he teached at McGill University (a Fondation Langlois programme). From 2007 to 2009 he was composer-in-residence at Metz Arsenal and at Orchestre National de Lorraine, then since 2009 to 2011, invited professor at Université de Montréal (UdeM). From September 2011 he is Associate Professor in composition at the Schulich School of McGill University. He is currently composer-in-residence at Ensemble MEITAR in Tel-Aviv.

His discography includes about thirty CDs including 7 monographs.

-----------------------------------2015

> Premieres

26/04/15
NOMADIC SOUNDS, for choir
Text by Philippe Leroux from texts by Jacob Handl, Clément Jannequin, Roland de Lassus and Thomas Tomkins.
Viva Voce - Cond.: Peter Schubert
Montréal - Canada

07/11/15
TROIS POEMES DE FERNAND OUELLETTE, for soprano, flute, clarinet and cello
Ensemble Accroche Note
Festival Traiettorie - Parme – Italia

> News

- Simone et Cino del Duca Prize of the Institut de France.

- Charles Cros 2015 Prize for the contemporary music CD Quid sit musicus ?

-----------------------------------2016

> Premieres

15/01/16 and 16/01/16
WHITE FACE, for string quartet
Quatuor Béla
Philharmonie de Paris - Paris - France
Scène Nationale - Chambéry - France

31/03/16
DE L’IMITATION, for saxophone quartet
Quasar
MMR-CIRMMT - Montréal – Canada

02/07/16
POSTLUDE A L’EPAIS, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano
Meitar Ensemble - Cond.: Pierre-André Valade
Festival Manifeste - Ircam - Paris – France

15/11/16
IMPRESSIONS D’ENFANCE, for piano
Student of CRR de Paris
CRR - Paris - France

16/11/16
ENVERS IV, for orchestra
Orchestre Colonne - Cond.: Laurent Petitgirard
Institut de France - Paris - France

> News

- Monographic CD release: Quid sit musicus ? for vocal ensemble, cello, guitar and electronics, by Ensemble Solistes XXI, under the direction of Rachid Safir, Ircam technics, for the label Soupir Editions (S228).

-----------------------------------2017

> Premieres

23/04/17
(D)TOURNER, for percussion and instrumental ensemble
Ensemble Aventa - Cond.: Bill Linwood
Perc.: Aiyun Huang
Victoria BC - Canada

17/10/17
PRELUDE A L’EPAIS, for instrumental ensemble
Meitar Ensemble - Cond.: Pierre-André Valade
Conservatory - Tel Aviv - Israel

06/12/17
CONCA REATINA, for saxophone
Claude Delangle
Festival Nuova Consonanza - Roma - Italia

> News

- Monographic CD release: De l’Itération, for 6 percussions, Les Uns, for 3 percussions, and De la vitesse, for 6 percussions, by Sixtrum, for the label Soupir Editions. - S232.

- Monographic CD release: Ailes for soprano and instrumental ensemble, Continuo(ns) for quintet, De la texture for 8 instruments, and Postlude à l’épais for 5 instruments, by Meitar Ensemble, for the label Soupir Éditions - S244.

- CD release: ...Ami...Chemin...Oser...Vie... for instrumental ensemble, by the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (of Montréal), under the direction of Lorraine Vaillancourt, for the label éOle Records - éOr_016.

-----------------------------------2018

> Premieres

29/09/18
REPETER... OPPOSER, for piano
Hugues Leclère
Festival Musica - Strasbourg - France

06/10/18
VVV, for violin and piano
Vl.: Virginie Buscail
Pno: Anne-Lise Gastaldi
Les Journées Musicales Marcel Proust - Cabourg - France

-----------------------------------2019

> Premieres

22/01/19
L’EPAIS, for instrumental ensemble
Ensemble Court-Circuit - Cond.: Jean Deroyer
CRR - Paris - France

24/03/19
NEVE(S), concerto for percussion and orchestra
Orchestre symphonique de Québec - Perc.: Anne-Julie Caron
Cond.: Fabien Gabel
Grand Théâtre - Quebec (Quebec) - Canada

17/05/19
NOÛS, for saxophone and piano
Sax.: Claude Delangle
Pno: Odile Delangle
JT Art Hall Affinis - Tokyo - Japan

30/11/19
EON, for cello solo
Séverine Ballon
Festival Rainy Days - Espace Découverte - Uhr - Luxembourg