FRÉDÉRIQUE LE DUC-MOREAU
COMPOSER | ORCHESTRATOR
Music
Films | Animations | Video games
Bio
Frédérique Le Duc-Moreau is a composer originally from Montreal (Canada), based in Chicago, whose artistic range extends across concert music, music for stage performances, dance productions, and various visual media such as video games and cinema.
As a film composer, Frédérique aims to enrich storytelling through music by combining her artistic vision with technical expertise. With a strong foundation in concert music composition, she integrates new textures and extended techniques into her scores, creating distinctive and personal soundscapes. Her focus is on elevating both orchestral and hybrid scores by blending the traditions of film music and concert music, bringing together her two creative worlds.
Throughout her career, Frédérique's compositions have been performed by renowned ensembles including the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, the Molinari Quartet, the Mémoires Quartet, the Quartango ensemble, and the Ensemble contemporain de Montréal (ECM+). Collaborating with diverse artists on films and video games, her music has been showcased at numerous festivals across Canada, the United States, Belgium, Romania, Portugal, Italy, Finland and Germany.
Frédérique holds a Bachelor's degree in Viola Performance and an Undergraduate Diploma in Instrumental Composition at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal. She furthered her studies with a dual Graduate Diploma from the Université de Montréal (Canada) and the KASK & Conservatorium in Ghent (Belgium). Currently, she’s pursuing an MFA in Composition for the Screen at Columbia College Chicago.
2024-2026
Music Composition for the Screen MFA
2022-2024
Programme InMICS
KASK & Conservatorium / School of Arts of University College of Ghent
2017-2022
Conservatoire de musique de Montréal
Collaborations
Music by Frédérique Le Duc-Moreau
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
Some achievements
Fall 2024
November 2024
Summer 2024
March 2024
January 2024
Fall 2023
October 2023
Spring 2023
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November 2022
November 2022
August 2022
May 2022
May 2022
March 2022
March 2022
Fall 2021
August 2021
March 2021
Fall 2020
February 2020
Recipient of the 2nd Prize, Best Original Score, Animation, awarded by the SOCAN Foundation for the music of Red Meat
004ngel, a docufiction in collaboration with Eli Jean Tahchi, created as part of the "4:4" Project under the guidance of the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ) and the National Institute of Image and Sound (L'inis) | Composer
Les étoiles filantes, a fiction film by Laurent Piché | Composer
Unquiet Man, work performed by the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, as part of its concert Emerging Voices in Music Creation | Composer
Red Meat, a short animation by Eleni Aerts | Composer
Don't Forget, a game from HOWEST | Composer
Participation in a matchmaking session between young composers and directors
Internship at Vibe Avenue | Composition & Integration
Recherché, a short animation film by Gabriel Agostinho Da Silva Pereira | Composer
Archipel, a video game from the DESS in video game design at Université de Montréal | Integrator and Sound Designer
The Data Scraper, a short stop motion film by Joshua Stewart | Composer
Tender Embrace, a short animation film by Andrea Fabris-Pasqual | Composer
Vitreum, a short animation film from UQAT | Co-composer
The Obscura Experiment, a video game from UQAT | Audio Coordinator and Composer
Lumi, a video game from the National Center for Animation and Design (NAD) | Composer and Sound Designer
L’Autre, a video game from the National Center for Animation and Design (NAD) | Composer and Sound Designer
Ad Vitam Brevem, a ballet-concert at the Jardins de Métis | Composer and Violist
Composition residency for the Piano Rue of Rimouski
End-of-Bachelor dissertation viva in instrumental composition
Admission to the InMICS program (International Master in Composition for Screen)
Composition residency with the Molinari Quartet
Composition residency with the MusquAvenir ensemble
Orford Music Academy composition workshop
Diapason, a short film by Sébastien Charlebois | Composer
Composition residency with the Quartango ensemble
Collaboration with ECM+ | Composer