Philippe Leroux

Philippe Leroux has composed around fifty works, including acousmatic pieces, vocal music, chamber music, symphonic orchestra pieces, and electronic device music, commissioned by French and international institutions (French Ministry of Culture, Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, SWR Radio Baden-Baden, IRCAM, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ictus, 2e2m, INA-GRM, Koussevitzky Foundation, etc.). His compositions are featured in major international festivals such as the Festival Présences of Radio France, Agora Musica, Roma-Europa, Manca, Bath Festival, Donaueschingen Festival, Barcelona Festival, Ultima in Oslo, Tempo in Berkeley, as well as by BBC Symphony Orchestras in London and Scotland.

Philippe Leroux has received numerous awards, has published several articles on contemporary music, and gives lectures as well as composition courses notably at the Royaumont Foundation, at IRCAM, in prestigious universities in the United States, and at the National Superior Conservatories of Music in Paris and Lyon. From 2001 to 2006, he taught composition at IRCAM within the framework of the Composition and Computer Music Curriculum; in 2005 and 2006, he was also a composition professor at McGill University in Montreal under the Langlois Foundation. From 2007 to 2009, he was in residence at the Arsenal de Metz and the National Orchestra of Lorraine. In September 2009, he was appointed guest professor of composition at the University of Montreal for two years.