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. Their music has been performed in France, Belgium, Canada, Thailand, South Korea and the US and is published by BabelScores in digital and printed formats.
They integrated the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology and the ACTOR Project (Analysis, Creation and Teaching of Orchestration) research labs in 2019, which allowed them to work on numerous interdisciplinary research-creation projects with performers, music technologists and neuroscientists.
Jonas Regnier obtained an Organ performance diploma, an instrumental and electroacoustic composition diploma at the Conservatoire of Music of Toulouse (France) in 2018. At the same time, they obtained their Bachelor of Arts degree in Musicology at the Sorbonne University (Paris). In 2021, they received a Master of Music in Composition at McGill University. They are now pursuing a PhD in Composition at McGill University under the supervision of Philippe Leroux, Robert Hasegawa and Stephen McAdams.
