Biography

Philippe Macnab-Séguin (b. 1992, Montreal) is a composer currently pursuing his D.Mus in composition at McGill University under the supervision of Denys Bouliane. His compositional work aims to create a new musical language at the crossroads of popular musics (especially jazz, metal, funk and electronic music) and contemporary classical music. His background reflects these diverse stylistic influences: after having played, written and recorded punk, ska, metal, pop and electronic music from a young age, Macnab-Séguin pursued a DEC in jazz guitar at Vanier College, followed by studies in classical composition at McGill University (B.Mus 2015, M.Mus 2017). His first piece of contemporary classical music (Ubiquity, for Pierrot ensemble) was awarded a BMI student composer award in 2012. Since then, he has been awarded the Robert Jones award for music Composition (2012), the Andrew Svoboda award for music composition (2013 and 2014), two McGill ensemble residencies (2013 and 2014), a Schulich School of Music Scholarship (2014), the Maurice Pollack Foundation Scholarship (2014), three SOCAN young composer awards (2015, 2018), two McGill Graduate Excellence Scholarships (2015, 2017), funding from the FRQSC and the SSHRC (2017, 2019), the Luba Zuk Piano Duo Composition Prize (2020) and a commission from the McGill Symphony Orchestra (Andrew Svoboda Award, 2019).