Philippe Hurel is a French composer of contemporary music and the artistic director of the Ensemble Court-Circuit.

Hurel studied violin, analysis, composition and musicology at the Regional Conservatory of Toulouse.

From 1981, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire, where he was a student in the classes of Ivo Malec and Betsy Jolas.

In 1985-1986 and again in 1988-1989 he took part in musical research at the IRCAM.

[1][2][3][4][5] Philippe Hurel was a resident of the Villa Medici in Rome from 1986 to 1988.