Claude Ledoux (composer)

His recent works, accordingly, demonstrate this interest in the "cultural porosity" in which emotion arises from geographical and historical encounters, linking spirituality to the most sensual aspects of our material existence.

He also carried out research into electronic music at the CRFMW studio (today Centre Pousseur) where he met Tristan Murail at the occasion of seminars.

Afterwards, his music has been performed in many towns in Europe - For instance : Brussels [Ars Musica], Liege [Royal Philharmonic of Liege], Paris [Radio-France, Présences, L’Itinéraire, Intercontemporain...], Strasbourg [Musica], Berlin [WDR, Philharmonie]), Turkey [Ankara Radio Symphony orchestra), in Ukraine and Russia, more recently at the ISCM Ljublijana (at the orchestral opening concert 2015 with the Slovenian Radio Orchestra].

Due to his passion for Asian sounds, he travelled in several eastern countries in order to undertake researches and to learn the traditional art of music.

In 2016 he composed the compulsory concerto for the Final of the Queen Elisabeth Competition, piano, "A Butterfly's Dream" - based on the Chinese Zhuangzi (book) - and his "Trois Itinérances" was premiered at Tokyo.

Moreover, "Tomoe", a fifty minutes "Rappresentatione" for Soprano, Baryton, Japanese Biwa/singer and baroque ensemble, was performed at the Festival de Wallonie (2020).

Artistic Director (and founding member) of LAPS, a new ensemble that combines laptops with acoustic instruments, the composer has also written numerous articles on composition, analysis and contemporary music.