Emilie Cecilia LeBel (1983- )
Emilie LeBel is an emerging composer, audio engineer, and music educator based in Toronto. She has studied at the University of Victoria, Harris Institute for the Arts and York University. Presently, she is completing doctoral studies in composition at The University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music. She has participated in workshops and residencies including: Le Centre d’arts Orford, The Scotia Festival of Music, New Adventures in Sound Art (Sound Travels Festival and Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art), The Banff Centre, The Canadian Contemporary Music Workshop and Soundstreams Canada. LeBel composes both acoustic and electroacoustic works for concerts, film and stage. She has also worked on a variety of collaborative projects with visual, performance and video artists. She draws on many influences to create her compositions including: her interest in narrative, her classical training, her work with visual art, her fascination with electronics, her interest in interdisciplinary projects and her involvement with contemporary improvisation. Her compositions aim to avoid and break traditional boundaries in style, form and substance. She strives to create music that is imaginative, embraces the unusual, and draws from a wide spectrum of sounds.COMPOSITIONS LeBel Links ~ ~ ~ Works by Genre
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WORKS BY GENRE LeBel Links ~ top of page ~
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Dramatic/Theater
Taste of Bitter Melon (2009) [text: EJ Shu]
two narrators, flute, violin, berimbau, hand drum, voice, vibraphone/percussion & piano
Orchestra
Light Traveller (2013) orchestra
commit these words to memory (2012) orchestra
Murmur (2009) string orchestra
Chamber
Formica tabletop in cerulean blue (2013) cello, piano & percussion
Losing Home (2013) alto saxophone & piano
Who Knows (2013) violin & piano
December is well known for blizzards and whiting out memories (2012)
mezzo-soprano, alto recorder, viola, cello, electric guitar, piano, music boxes & vibraphone
Ruthie (2011) string quartet
Locate (2011) viola, piano & percussion
i. Earth Atlas, ii. interlude for the dark boat lost at sea, iii. Cloud Atlas
Tincture (2011) string quartet
Anthophila (bee’s secrets) (2010) flute, clarinet, violin, cello & piano
i tripped curious valentine, you fell (2010) trumpet, percussion & piano
this dew (2010) string quartet
Rustler (2008) flute, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, tuba, hand percussion, piano, violin I & II, viola, cello I & II, double bass
The Turn of a Week (2007) string quartet
Big Box Shopping (2005) trumpet duet
Instrument and Piano
Solo Instrument
Annette (2013) alto saxophone
I could see the penguins’ home from the highway (2011) tenor recorder, with live processing & 8-channel playback
You Broke It (2005) trumpet
Piano
Cashew (2005) piano
Stories Never Live Alone (2008) time varies / piano (graphic score)
On faith, work, leisure & sleep (2011-12)
- Fifth View of Bell Island (2011)
- Breaker (2012)
- View from the Train (2012)
- Claimed (2011)
- Wonder (2012)
- Longing (2011)
piano, text, electronics & video
Metropolis (2010) piano, 2-channel playback, text & video
Homesick Curiosity (2010) piano & 2-channel playback
Vocal
What You Will (2012) mezzo-soprano & cello
the place of scraps - the totem pole transported to Toronto (2012) [textz: Jordan Abel] soprano & piano
The City and The Sea (2009) [text: E. P. Johnson] soprano & piano
Incidental/Film/Video
Devotion, videomusic (2010)
Electronic/Electroacoustic
On faith, work, leisure & sleep (2011-12)
- Fifth View of Bell Island (2011)
- Breaker (2012)
- View from the Train (2012)
- Claimed (2011)
- Wonder (2012)
- Longing (2011)
piano, text, electronics & video
I could see the penguins’ home from the highway (2011) tenor recorder, with live processing & 8-channel playback
Metropolis (2010) piano, 2-channel playback, text & video
Homesick Curiosity (2010) piano & 2-channel playback
She Dreams in a Transient Place (2008)
Unsequenced Memories (2008)
Pieces of Pieces (2008)
LEBEL LINKS Works by Genre ~ top of page ~
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Composer's website . . . contact Emilie Cecilia LeBel: here
LeBel @ Twitter
LeBel @ actuellecd
LeBel @ Blue Moss Ensemble
LeBel @ Canadian Music Centre
LeBel @ Facebook
LeBel @ McGill University
LeBel @ Musical Toronto
LeBel @ MySpaceMusic
LeBel @ Quatuor Bozzini
LeBel @ Sask New Music
LeBel @ Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ)
LeBel @ SoundCloud
LeBel @ SoundStreams
LeBel @ University of Toronto
LeBel @ Vox Novus
Publisher
LeBel @ Canadian Music Centre
Streaming Audio
LeBel @ Composer's website
LeBel @ MySpaceMusic
LeBel @ SoundCloud
Recordings
[none at the moment]
Video
LeBel @ Google Video
LeBel @ Vimeo
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