Marc LeMay

Marc LeMay is a composer known for music that is at once “pleasingly muscular” and “passionately lyrical” (New York Classical Review). Lyrical melodies wind through complex harmonic fields; raucous climaxes lead to moments of extreme stasis. His music is as often angry as it is humorous, explosive as it is introspective. 

LeMay’s most recently filled commissions and premieres were with singer Samantha Rose Williams and the American Patriots Project, the BrassTaps Duo (Trust Fall), the Chicago-based CHAI Collaborative Ensemble (What I Did For Love), and the Philadelphia-based vocal sextet Variant Six (INNERVISIONS of a Trebled Soul in a Troubled America). He has also written for The Colonials, Ensemble39, cellists Paul Dwyer and Craig Hultgren, and many other ensembles and orchestras.

Much of LeMay’s work is collaborative in nature. In addition to his work with librettists and poets, he has also co-created a number of multimedia pieces, including an app-based interactive soundwalk through Philadelphia, several dance dramas, music for theatre and film, and orchestral arrangements for singer-songwriters. He was a fellow with the American Opera Project’s Composers & the Voice workshop from 2015-2017, and has been developing projects for new operas and multimedia works ever since. 

A native of Birmingham, Alabama, LeMay holds degrees the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D. composition, 2017), the University of Michigan (M.A. composition, 2010), and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (B.A. music, 2007). He is currently a Visiting Teaching Faculty of music theory and composition at Florida State University, and a former faculty Lecturer of composition and theory at Georgia State University.

For more information, visit marclemaymusic.com