Philippe Malhaire holds an Agrégation in Music and a Doctorate in Music and Musicology from the Sorbonne University. He is currently the Deputy Director for Pedagogical Affairs at the Conservatoire Gabriel-Fauré (Paris 5th district), teacher at the Sorbonne University (Paris) and associate member of the IReMus. He is also director of the collection Musics in question(s) published by L'Harmattan and co-editor-in-chief (with Anthony Girard) of the musical journal Pour les sonorités opposées – aesthetics and musical analysis of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He is a recognized theorist of polytonality.

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Philippe Malhaire’s music do show an extremely sensitive personality, moved by a deep ideal. His main works are published by Klarthe, Delatour, Symetrie; they were performed by Fanny Prandi, Stéphanie Moraly, Romain David, Claire Couic, Diane Andersen…