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McGill Ph.D Student Wins Composer Wins Chamber Music Prize

Published: 17 December 2009

Quebec classical guitarist and composer Jimmie LeBlanc has won the $7,500 Jules Léger Prize for new chamber music awarded annually by the Canadian Council for the Arts and CBC. He won the award for L'Espace intérieur du monde, a chamber work for 15 musicians and electronic elements. LeBlanc, 32, currently at PhD student at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University, was born in Saint-Étienne-de-Lauzon, just outside Quebec City. He trained as a pop and jazz guitarist but later studied classical guitar and composition at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal. He has composed for the Contemporary Music Ensemble at McGill and created a mixed piece for saxophonist Ida Toninato. He won the Lutoslawski Award in 2008 for his work The Breaking of the Circle.

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