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Jules Bastin-Fontaine (b. 2000) is a composer and tuba player originally from Quebec City, now  based in Montreal. At the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, he obtained his master's degree  with distinction in instrumental composition with Maxime McKinley in 2024. At the same  institution, he is now completing an undergraduate degree in electroacoustic composition with  Louis Dufort and a post-master degree with Maxime McKinley and Ofer Pelz. 
His music has been performed by the Ensemble contemporain de Montréal, Ensemble  Paramirabo, Ensemble MusiquAvenir, the Orchestre symphonique du Conservatoire de musique  de Montréal conducted by Tania Miller and the Orchestre de la francophonie conducted by  Simon Rivard. At the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal, he composed the music for  Control, a work choreographed by Jera Wolfe with voice and poetry by Natasha Kanapé  Fontaine, premiered in May 2024. In June of the same year, he was composer-in-residence at  Berlin's Akademie der Künste, working on a co-composition with composer Lily Koslow. 
His music has been awarded three prizes in the SOCAN Foundation's “Competition for Young  Composers”. Trio en hommage à Bruckner won the “Relève VVA 2019” prize, awarded by E27  Musiques nouvelles, and his work L'heure joyeuse won the “ECM+/Orford Generation  Composition Prize” at the Orford 2020 Virtual Academy.