Philippe Malhaire holds an Agrégation in Music and a Doctorate in Music and Musicology from the Sorbonne University. He is currently 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, Kemel Niedernhausen (Germany); they were performed by Fanny Prandi, Stéphanie Moraly, Romain David, Claire Couic, Diane Andersen…