FRÉDÉRIQUE LE DUC-MOREAU
COMPOSER | ORCHESTRATOR
Music
Films | Animations | Video Games
Highlights
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, and Europe.
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, named the world’s best film music program in 2022, 2023, and 2025 by The Hollywood Reporter.
2024-2026
Music Composition for the Screen MFA
2022-2024
Programme InMICS
Université de Montréal
KASK & Conservatorium / School of Arts of University College of Ghent
2017-2022
Conservatoire de musique de Montréal
Collaborations
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Fall 2020
February 2020
Winner of the Brave Scoring Competition - OnScore, in collaboration with Patrick Doyle (composer) and Disney | Pixar
Selected for the highly competitive Screen Music Lab of the SOCAN Foundation, in collaboration with Ubisoft Montreal and led by music supervisor Simon Landry
Selected for the limited-admission Dispositif 3e personnage at the Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal (FNC), in partnership with the Festival International Music & Cinema Marseille
Best Original Music (Animation) | Second Prize Winner, awarded by the SOCAN Foundation for the score of the film Red Meat
Selected by the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ) and L’inis (Institut national de l’image et du son) for Project 4:4, a collaborative initiative pairing composers and directors to co-create an original short film, 0004ngel, with director Eli Jean Tahchi
Public defense of Master’s thesis (viva voce) on extended techniques and contemporary musical treatments as emotional narrative forces in Canadian cinema
Unquiet Man, work performed by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra as part of the concert Les Nouvelles voix de la création musicale
Selected for a composer–director matchmaking session at Film Fest Gent
Internship at Side Montréal (formerly Vibe Avenue) | Composition & Music Integration
Ad Vitam Brevem, ballet-concert presented at the Jardins de Métis | Composer and violist
Composition residency for the Piano Rue of Rimouski
Public defense of undergraduate thesis (viva) in instrumental composition
Selected for the InMics Program (International Master in Composition for Screen) following a competitive entrance examination
Composition residency with the Molinari Quartet
Composition residency with Ensemble MusquAvenir
Selected for the composition workshop at the Orford Music Academy
Composition residency with Ensemble Quartango
Collaboration with the Ensemble contemporain de Montréal (ECM+) | Composer