Jimmie LeBlanc

Jimmie LeBlanc (born 1977) is a Canadian composer specializing in instrumental and mixed music.

He then pursued studies in classical guitar and music composition at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal.

In 2009 he was awarded the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music for the work L’Espace intérieur du monde.

[1][2][3] LeBlanc is the author of Luigi Nono et les chemins de l'écoute (L'Harmattan, 2010), and of "Xenakis' Æsthetic Project: the Paradoxes of a Formalist Intuition" (Xenakis Matters, Pendragon Press, 2012), and has contributed two chapters to La création musicale au Québec (PUM, 2014).

He is member of the Circuit – musiques contemporaines editorial board, responsible of the cahiers d’analyse section, and regular member of the Observatoire interdisciplinaire de création et de recherche en musique (OICRM).