Composer, lecturer and author of articles on Music of the XXth and XXIst century, Claude Ledoux is currently Professor of Theoretical and Applied Analysis at the CNSMDP and of Composition at the Conservatoire Royal de Mons/Arts2 (B). He has also taught these subjects at numerous international courses and seminars. He was Director of the Centre Pousseur - Liège's electronic music studios - and Artistic Director of the Ars Musica Festival. In 2013, he founded the LAPS Ensemble (an original formation mixing laptops and amplified instruments), of which he is Artistic and Musical Director.
As a composer, his work is rooted in the idea of musical traverses, and thus attempts to imprint the mark of our shattered world within his music. From that point on, his work is defined as a crossroads between traditional written music - studied with Pousseur, Rzewski, Ligeti and Xenakis, or assimilated by capillary action during his many encounters with "spectral" composers - and popular music (jazz, pop, progressive rock, etc.). ...); to the point of fusion between non-European music, which has attracted him since adolescence, and new technologies, echoes of research carried out at the Liège and Ircam studios (Paris).
Fascinated by all kinds of music, and particularly that of Asia, he has traveled throughout the Orient - Japan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia and Northern India - carrying out extensive musical research in the field to nourish his work.
His music has been recorded on the Cyprès, Paraty, SubRosa, Harmonia Mundi and WBM labels.
Claude Ledoux holds Master's degrees in Composition and Classical Musical Writing, as well as numerous prizes including those for piano and conducting, and a diploma in "Art et Sciences de la Musique" from the University of Liège (B).
Since 2005, he has been a member of the Académie Royale de Belgique.
Website: ledouxclaude.be