User:EllenZoe/sandbox/Pascal Le Boeuf

Pascal Le Boeuf (born August 3, 1986) is a pianist and composer. Along with his twin brother Remy Le Boeuf, he forms the jazz group Le Boeuf Brothers, and has a successful solo career as a composer and electronic artist ranging from modern improvised music to eclectic classical with production-based technology.

Career
Le Boeuf was born in Santa Cruz, California. He studied jazz piano at the Manhattan School of Music with Kenny Barron (Bachelors in Music in 2007 and Masters in Music in 2010) and music composition at Princeton University with Steve Mackey, Donnacha Dennehy, and Louis Andriessen. Le Boeuf’s solo career includes Pascal's Triangle, the album recorded as a piano trio with bassist Linda Oh and drummer Justin Brown), and he composed music for the 2008 Emmy Award-winning movie ''King Lines. He played as support for D’Angelo’s Second Coming US tour and the British electronic group Clean Bandit with Australian pop vocalist Meg Mac.

In 2015, Le Boeuf received a FROMM Commission from Harvard University, the 2015 ASCAP Foundation Johnny Mandel Prize,  Independent Music Awards in "Jazz",, "Eclectic"  and "Electronica" categories, a 2015 New Jazz Works Commission from Chamber Music America in collaboration with JACK Quartet, and won first place in the 2008 International Songwriting Competition. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in Music Composition at Princeton University as a Naumburg Doctoral Fellow.

Orchestra

 * Transition Behavior (2016) - string orchestra

Large ensemble (7 or more players)

 * … to disagree (2015) - 8 minutes - flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, marimba, and percussion
 * Alkaline (2014) - 10 minutes - string quartet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, prepared piano, double bass, and percussion
 * Exquisite Corpse I-IV (2014) - 19 minutes - string quartet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, piano, double bass, and percussion

Chamber ensemble

 * Fine (2016) - 10 minutes - string quartet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, prepared piano, double bass, and percussion (alt. for piano quintet)
 * Forbidden Subjects (2016) - two electric guitars, two electric basses, and two drum sets
 * Family of Others (2016) - 11 minutes - piano quintet
 * Don't Say A Word (2016) - spoken word, bass clarinet, violin, cello, bass, piano, and percussion
 * Alpha (2016) - solo cello, solo percussion, and strings
 * Wanderlust (2015) - 8 minutes - piano quintet
 * Obliquely Wrecked (2015) - 9 minutes - piano trio
 * Antithesis (2015) - 17 minutes - flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion
 * Prologue (2014) - 5 minutes - string quartet, and tenor saxophone
 * GIRLS (2014) - 5 minutes - two flutes, piano, and prepared piano

Solo

 * Variations On Breathing (2016) - layered prepared piano
 * Into the Anthropocene (2016) - 15 minutes - for violin (or other instrument) and FX pedals

Electronic/Multimedia

 * Robe Threader (2015) - 2 minutes - steel pan, flute, prepared piano, pre-recorded and live electronics
 * Gathering Blue (2015) - 2 minutes - flute, prepared piano, pre-recorded and live electronics
 * … Out of the Blue (2015) - 2 minutes - steel pan, flute, prepared piano, pre-recorded and live electronics
 * Revisiting the Tomb in Miami (2008) - 4 minutes - Fender Rhodes, layered synthesizers, pre-recorded and live electronics