Pascal Le Boeuf
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Pascal Le Boeuf | |
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| Background information | |
| Born | August 3, 1986 Santa Cruz, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz, contemporary classical, electronic |
| Instruments | Piano, keyboards, vocals |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Labels | New Amsterdam Records New Focus Records Nineteen-Eight Records Ropeadope Records |
| Website | www |
Pascal Le Boeuf (born August 3, 1986) is an American pianist, composer and producer whose works, both solo and with others, range from modern improvised music to cross-breeding classical with production-based technology.[1]
Le Boeuf won a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition in 2025 for "Strands" (from Are We Dreaming the Same Dream? by Akropolis Reed Quintet, Pascal Le Boeuf, and Christian Euman). He had been nominated for the same award twice before, for the works "Alkaline" (2018) and “Snapshots” (2023).
Since 2000, he has co-led the jazz group Le Boeuf Brothers with his identical twin brother Remy Le Boeuf.
Le Boeuf was born in Santa Cruz, California.[2] He is a 2004 YoungArts alumnus.[3] He studied jazz piano at the Manhattan School of Music with Kenny Barron (Bachelors in Music in 2007 and Masters in Music in 2010)[4] and music composition at Princeton University with Steve Mackey, Dmitri Tymoczko, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Donnacha Dennehy, and Louis Andriessen.[5]
In 2004, Pascal and his twin brother Remy formed Le Boeuf Brothers and together released four albums, mixing jazz, hip hop, electronic and classical styles.[6]
Le Boeuf's solo career includes Pascal's Triangle, the album recorded as a piano trio with bassist Linda May Han Oh and drummer Justin Brown),[7] 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.[1]
Since 2015, Le Boeuf's work has focused on collaborations with artists including Bec Plexus and Ian Chang,[8] Alarm Will Sound, Iarla Ŏ Lionáird,[9] Hub New Music and Four/Ten Media,[10] Shattered Glass,[11] Nick Photinos,[12] Sara Caswell, Jessica Meyer and Todd Reynolds.[13]
Le Boeuf joined the faculty of the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University as Visiting Assistant Professor in Computer Music and Technology in 2021[14] and has since been named Contemporary Music Ensemble Director and Assistant Professor of the Practice of Music and Technology.[15]
Accolades
Le Boeuf won first place in the 2008 International Songwriting Competition.[16] He has won multiple Independent Music Awards in Jazz, Eclectic, Electronica, and Music Video categories.[17]
Le Boeuf received a FROMM Commission from Harvard University in 2015,[18] the 2015 ASCAP Foundation Johnny Mandel Prize,[19] and 2011 and 2015 New Jazz Works Commissions from Chamber Music America in collaboration with JACK Quartet and Le Boeuf Brothers.[20]
In 2017, Le Boeuf was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition for his work "Alkaline" from the album Imaginist recorded by the Le Boeuf Brothers and the JACK Quartet.[21] He was also nominated for his work “Snapshots” in the same category in 2023.[22]
He is a Ph.D. candidate in Music Composition at Princeton University,[23] and was awarded the Harold W. Dodds Honorific Fellowship in 2020.[24]
