Pascal Le Boeuf

Pascal Le Boeuf
Background information
Born	(1986-08-03) August 3, 1986 (age 39) Santa Cruz, California, U.S.
Genres	Jazz, contemporary classical, electronic
Instrument(s)	Piano, keyboards, vocals
Years active	2000–present
Labels	New Amsterdam Records New Focus Records Nineteen-Eight Records Ropeadope Records
Website	www.pascalmusic.com

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.

Career

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]

Discography

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Leader, featured artist

Year	Title	Label	Role	Personnel
2024	Are We Dreaming the Same Dream?	Bright Shiny Things	composer, pianist, producer	Akropolis Reed Quintet, Pascal Le Boeuf, Christian Euman: featuring Tim Gocklin (oboe), Kari Landry (clarinet), Matt Landry (alto saxophone), Andrew Koeppe (bass clarinet), Ryan Reynolds (bassoon), Pascal Le Boeuf (piano), Christian Euman (drums)
2023	Ritual Being	SoundSpore Records	composer, pianist, producer	Pascal Le Boeuf: featuring Friction Quartet, Shattered Glass, Remy Le Boeuf (alto saxophone), Ben Wendel (tenor saxophone), Pascal Le Boeuf (piano), Linda May Han Oh (bass), Justin Brown (drums), Todd Reynolds (violin), Sara Caswell (violin), Jessica Meyer (viola), Nick Photinos (cello), Kelli Kathman (flute), Charles Yang (violin)
2023	HUSH	SoundSpore Records	composer, pianist, producer	Le Boeuf Brothers: featuring Remy Le Boeuf (alto saxophone), Dayna Stephens (tenor saxophone), Pascal Le Boeuf (piano), Linda May Han Oh (bass), Christian Euman (drums)
2016	Imaginist	New Focus Recordings	composer, pianist, producer	Le Boeuf Brothers + JACK Quartet: featuring Remy Le Boeuf (alto sax, oboe, bass clarinet), Ben Wendel (tenor sax), Ben Street/Martin Nevin (bass), Justin Brown/Peter Kronreif (drums) with Ari Streisfeld (violin), Christopher Otto (violin), John Pickford Richards (viola), Kevin McFarland (cello)
2016	Kissy Girls	Playground Mafia Records	songwriter, keyboardist, electronic production and sound design, producer	Kissy Girls: featuring Emily Greene (vocals/keyboard)
2014	Jesus On the Mainline EP	Converse Rubber Tracks	keyboardist	Jesus On the Mainline
2014	King Pony	Le Boeuf Brothers Music	songwriter, vocalist, keyboardist, producer	King Pony: featuring Leon Boykins (bass), Jake Goldbas (drums), Adam Levy, Billy Norris, Armand Hirsch (guitars)
2013	Pascal’s Triangle	Nineteen-Eight Records	composer, pianist, producer	Pascal Le Boeuf: featuring Linda Oh (bass), Justin Brown (drums)
2013	Remixed	Nineteen-Eight Records	composer, pianist, electronic production and sound design, producer	Le Boeuf Brothers: featuring remixes by Pascal and Remy Le Boeuf, Dave Binney, Tim Lefebvre, Wolff Parkinson White (Jochen Rueckert) Kissy Girls, Lucky Luke, Armand Hirsch
2011	In Praise of Shadows	Nineteen-Eight Records	composer, pianist, electronic production and sound design, producer	Le Boeuf Brothers: featuring Remy Le Boeuf (alto sax, bass clarinet, tenor sax), Mike Ruby (tenor sax), Linda Oh (bass), Henry Cole (drums), Nir Felder (guitar), Adria Le Boeuf (vocals), and Myth String Quartet: Tallie Brunfelt (violin), Jeremy Blanden (violin), Kim Uwate (viola), Isaac Melamed (cello)
2009	House Without A Door	Le Boeuf Brothers Music	composer, pianist/keyboardist, producer	Le Boeuf Brothers: featuring Remy Le Boeuf (alto sax, woodwinds), Ambrose Akinmusire (trumpet), Marcus Strickland (tenor sax, soprano sax), Matt Brewer (bass) Clarence Penn (drums), Janelle Reichman (tenor sax), Billy Norris (bass), Greg Ritchie (drums)

Collaborator

• Tasha Warren & Dave Eggar, “Snapshots”, Ourself Behind Ourself, Concealed (Bright Shiny Things, 2022) – composer, pianist, editor
• Real Loud, “Forbidden Subjects”, Real Loud (New Focus Recordings, 2021) – composer, producer
• Bec Plexus + JACK Quartet and Ian Chang, “mirror image”, StickLip (New Amsterdam Records, 2020) – composer, producer, keyboardist
• Barbora Kolářová, “Imp in Impulse”, Imp in Impulse (Furious Artisans, 2020) – composer, producer
• Hub New Music, “Media Control”, July 3, 2020: A Benefit Compilation (New Amsterdam Records, 2020) – composer, producer
• Wolff Parkinson White, Favours (Nonplace, 2020) – vocalist, composer
• Joy On Fire, Hymn (Procrastination Records, 2020) – pianist
• Dmitri Tymoczko, Fools for Angels (New Focus Recordings, 2019) – pianist
• Remy Le Boeuf, Light as a Word (Outside in Music, 2019) – co-producer
• A New Age for New Age, “Our Kingdom”, New Age for a New Age Vol. 1 (NA4NA, 2019) – composer, producer, keyboardist
• Owen Lake and The Tragic Loves, The Best of Your Lies (Carrier Records, 2018) – keyboardist
• Nick Photinos (featuring JACK Quartet, Charles Yang, and Jeffrey Zeigler), “Alpha”, Petits Artѐfacts (New Amsterdam Records, 2017) – composer, producer
• Shattered Glass, “Transition Behavior”, Shattered Glass (Shattered Glass, 2017) – composer
• Jesus on the Mainline, The Morning Bell (Ropeadope Records, 2017) – keyboardist
• Empty Promise, Empty Promise – Single (Empty Promise, 2017) – co-composer, co-producer
• Ian Rosenbaum, Memory Palace (National Sawdust Tracks, 2017) – co-producer
• Allan Harris, Nobody’s Gonna Love You Better (Love Productions Records/Membran Entertainment, 2016) – pianist, keyboardist, arranger, songwriter
• RighteousGIRLS, Gathering Blue (New Focus Recordings, 2015) - composer, producer
• Allan Harris, Black Bar Jukebox (Love Productions/Must Have Jazz, 2015) - pianist, keyboardist, arranger
• ROMY, Unbound (Romy Balvers, 2014) - co-producer, keyboardist, backup vocalist
• Natalie Cressman & Secret Garden, Unfolding (Cressman Music, 2012) – pianist
• Michael Thomas, The Long Way (Michael Thomas, 2010) – pianist
• Murray-James Morrison, Happy Every Day (Murray-James Morrison, 2010) – pianist
• Bastien Weinhold, River Styx (FrameMusic, 2010) – pianist
• Mike Ruby, Play Time (Alma/Universal Music, 2007) – pianist, keyboardist
• Glass Eye Trio, Harajuku (Glass Eye Trio, 2007) – pianist, keyboardist
• Colin Stranahan, Transformation (Capri Records, 2006) – pianist, composer

Film and TV

Year	Artist	Title	Studio/Publisher	Genre	Role
2018	Pascal Le Boeuf with Dave Eggar (cello), Jessica Meyer (viola), Gina Izzo (flute), and Four/Ten Media	Into the Anthropocene	Pascal Le Boeuf Music	Video EP	composer, producer
2018	Josephine Decker (director), Molly Herron (composer)	Madeline's Madeline (film), "The Kamaur" (composition)	Parris Pictures	Film music	producer
2011	David Schwartz	The Playboy Club	NBC	TV	pianist
2008	Ken Koenig	Santa Cruz Swings: A history of Jazz in Santa Cruz	Roseking Productions	Documentary DVD	pianist, composer
2008	Josh Lowell, Peter Mortimer	King Lines	Big Up Productions	Film soundtrack	keyboardist, electronic production and sound design, composer
2000	Jubilee 2000, Vatican Rome	Bernstein’s Mass	Kultur Films	Film score	soprano soloist

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Dr. Seuss Toddler	Goslings	[27]
2005	Virtua Quest	Hayami, Tito	English version [28]

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