In his instrumental and mixed compositions, Jimmie LeBlanc (Quebec, 1977) explores how music can be thought of in terms of capturing forces and the logic of sensation, notably through the concepts of performative figure and texture. More recently, the interplay between sense and sensation, through the more explicit integration of extra-musical references into his music, characterizes his work, and his research and research-creation projects concern musical analysis, semiotics and aesthetics. A graduate of the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal in composition and musical analysis, and holding a doctorate in composition from the Schulich School of Music at McGill University, his music has carved out a place for itself on local and international scenes with, among others, Ensemble Contrechamps, Esprit Orchestra, Quatuor Bozzini, Nouvel ensemble moderne, Ensemble Paramirabo, Continuum Ensemble, Camerata Aberta, the Quasar saxophone quartet, and many soloists. LeBlanc won a 3rd prize at the Lutosławski Award (2008), as well as the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music (Canada Council for the Arts, 2009). He is the author of Luigi Nono et les chemins de l’écoute (L’Harmattan 2010), “Xenakis’ Aesthetics: The Paradoxes of a Formalist Intuition” (Xenakis Matters, Pendragon Press 2012), two chapters to the collective work La création musicale au Québec (ed. Jonathan Goldman, PUM, 2014), and contributed several pieces on musical narrativity and Deleuzian semiotics. He is currently editor-in-chief of the Revue musicale OICRM and a regular member of the Observatoire interdisciplinaire de création et de recherche en musique (OICRM). Jimmie LeBlanc is assistant professor of composition at the Université de Montréal‘s Faculty of Music.
