不良研究所

Philippe Leroux was born in Boulogne Billancourt (France) on september 24th, 1959. In 1978 he entered the Paris Conservatory (Conservatoire National Sup茅rieur de Musique), studied with Ivo Malec, Claude Ballif, Pierre Sch盲effer and Guy Reibel and obtained three first prizes. Meanwhile, he followed classes with Olivier Messiaen, Franco Donatoni, Betsy Jolas, Jean-Claude Eloy and Iannis X茅nakis.

In 1993 he was selected to enter the Villa Medicis in Rome for two years, where he remained until 1995.

His compositional output (about eighty works to date) includes symphonic, vocal, electronic, acousmatic and chamber music. His works are the result of various commissioners, among them the French Ministry of Culture, Radio- France Philharmonic Orchestra, S眉dwestfunk Baden Baden, IRCAM, Percussions de Strasbourg, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble 2e2m, Ensemble Court-Circuit, INA-GRM, the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne de Montreal, Ensemble Ictus, Festival Musica, Ensemble BIT 20, Koussevitsky Foundation, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Ensemble Athelas, Orchestre National de Lorraine, Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, 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 Pr茅sences (Paris), Agora (Paris), Venice Biennale, Bath Festival, Festival Musica (Strasbourg), Stockholm ISCM, Barcelona Festival, Musiques en Sc猫nes (Lyon), Festival Manca (Nice), Bergen Festival, Ultima (Oslo) Festival, Tage f眉r Neue Musik (Z眉rich), BBC Symphony Orchestra (London), Tonhalle Orchester Z眉rich, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (Glasgow), Philharmonia Orchestra (London), Czech Philharmony, Orchestre symphonique de Qu茅bec,听etc.

He has received many prizes and awards: Prix Herv茅 Dugardin, Best contemporary musical creation Award 1996 for听(d')ALLER, SACEM Prize, Andr茅 Caplet and Nadia and Lili Boulanger Prizes from the Academy of Fine Arts (Institut de France), Salabert Prize for his piece听Apocalypsis听and Arthur Honegger Prize (Fondation de France) for his overall production.听Since 2015听he is fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

In addition, Philippe Leroux writes articles on contemporary music, has given lectures and taught composition at Berkeley University (California), Harvard, Grieg Academy (Bergen), Columbia University (New-York), Royal Conservatory of Copenhagen, University of Toronto, Fondation Royaumont, IRCAM, American Conservatoire at Fontainebleau, Paris and Lyon Conservatoires Nationaux Sup茅rieurs, Domaine Forget (Quebec) , and Georgia Institute of Technology at Atlanta.

听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 taught at 不良研究所 (a Fondation Langlois programme). From 2007 to 2009 he was composer-in-residence at Metz Arsenal and at Orchestre National de Lorraine, then from 2009 to 2011, invited professor at Universit茅 de Montr茅al (UdeM). As of September 2011 he is professor in composition at 不良研究所.