Jonas Regnier

Jonas Regnier (b.1995) is a French composer and researcher currently based in Montreal. Their research and artistic interests focus on music cognition and psychology, and more specifically the ways to direct listeners’ attention with timbre, space and musical discourse. They are exploring instrumental, electroacoustic, and mixed music composition with equal interest and their music has been performed in France, Belgium, Canada, Thailand, South Korea and the US. Their professional and academic achievements include awards such as the McGill University Graduate Excellence Fellowship (2022), the Schulich Scholarship (2022), the Tacet(i) Winning Commissioned Prize (2020), and the CIRMMT Research Student Award (2020 and 2023).

Jonas Regnier’s music has been performed in many international festivals and symposiums such as the International Gugak Workshop 2023, Bangkok Int-Act New Music and Arts Festival 2023, IRCAM Manifeste Festival 2022, IRCAM Forum 2021, ByPass Contemporary music festival 2021, Thailand New Music and Arts Festival 2020, Ticino Musica Festival 2020, University of Nebraska Kearney New Music Festival 2020, Vivier InterUniversitaire Creation Concert 2020, and has been performed by world-famous ensembles such as Ensemble Intercontemporain, Quatuor Diotima, Tacet(i) Ensemble, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Trio Émérillion.

They integrated both the CIRMMT (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology) and the ACTOR Project (Analysis, Creation and Teaching of Orchestration) research groups in 2019, which allowed them to work on interdisciplinary projects with performers, music technologists and neuroscientists. They have been actively involved in different research-creation projects such as “Directing attention in Contemporary Music with timbre”, or “Space as Timbre”.

Jonas Regnier obtained an Organ performance diploma, an instrumental composition diploma and an electroacoustic composition diploma at the Conservatoire of Music of Toulouse (France) in 2018 in the classes of Stéphane Bois (Organ), Guy Ferla (Instrumental composition) and Bertrand Dubedout (Electroacoustic composition). At the same time, they obtained their Bachelor of Arts degree in Musicology at the Sorbonne University (Paris). In 2018, they received the Maurice Pollack Foundation Fellowship and the Marvin Duchow Memorial Scholarship to attend a Master of Music in Composition at McGill University under the supervision of Philippe Leroux. They are now pursuing a PhD in Composition at McGill University under the supervision of Philippe Leroux, Robert Hasegawa, and Stephen McAdams.