Pascal Le Boeuf
August 3, 1986
Santa Cruz, California, U.S.
Jazz, contemporary classical, electronic
Piano, keyboards, vocals
2000–present
New Amsterdam Records
New Focus Records
Nineteen-Eight Records
Ropeadope Records
Le Boeuf was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition for the work "Alkaline" and “Snapshots”.
He also co-leads the jazz group Le Boeuf Brothers with his twin brother Remy Le Boeuf.
Career[edit]
Le Boeuf was born in Santa Cruz, California.[2] He studied jazz piano at the Manhattan School of Music with Kenny Barron (Bachelors in Music in 2007 and Masters in Music in 2010)[3] and music composition at Princeton University with Steve Mackey, Dmitri Tymoczko, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Donnacha Dennehy, and Louis Andriessen.[4]
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.[5]
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),[6] 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,[7] Alarm Will Sound, Iarla Ŏ Lionáird,[8] Hub New Music and Four/Ten Media,[9] Shattered Glass,[10] Nick Photinos,[11] Sara Caswell, Jessica Meyer and Todd Reynolds.[12]
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[13] and has since been named Contemporary Music Ensemble Director and Assistant Professor of the Practice of Music and Technology.[14]
Accolades[edit]
Le Boeuf won first place in the 2008 International Songwriting Competition.[15] He has won multiple Independent Music Awards in Jazz, Eclectic, Electronica, and Music Video categories.[16]
Le Boeuf received a FROMM Commission from Harvard University in 2015,[17] the 2015 ASCAP Foundation Johnny Mandel Prize,[18] and 2011 and 2015 New Jazz Works Commissions from Chamber Music America in collaboration with JACK Quartet and Le Boeuf Brothers.[19]
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.[20] He was also nominated for his work “Snapshots” in the same category in 2023.[21]
He is a Ph.D. candidate in Music Composition at Princeton University,[22] and was awarded the Harold W. Dodds Honorific Fellowship in 2020.[23]