Philippe Leroux (born 24 September 1959) is a French composer living in Montreal, Quebec, who has been identified as "one of the most important composers in contemporary music.
He studied composition starting in 1978 with Ivo Malec, Claude Ballif, Pierre Schaeffer, and Guy Rebeil at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, where he obtained three first prizes.
[2] He studied at both the Groupe de Recherches Musicales and at IRCAM during this period.
[2] From 2001 to 2006 he was a composition teacher at IRCAM, in the Cursus d’Informatique Musicale programme.
Since 2011 he has been an associate professor in composition at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University.