Tobias Feierabend

Born in Paris in 1993, Tobias Feierabend is a French-American composer based in France. Both experimental and sensitive, his music is rooted in a variety of past, present, artful and popular influences.

His work has been distinguished by several awards and supports : winner of the SACEM Hervé Dugardin Prize in 2025, he is also a recipient of the Banque Populaire Foundation Award (2024), the Prix de la Vocation (2023), the Vincent Meyer Foundation Award, and the Marthe Depelsenaire Prize from the Fondation de France (2022). His music is commissioned and performed in France and abroad by a variety of instrumentalists, ensembles, and institutions such as Radio France, the Ensemble InterContemporain, Multilatérale, l’Itinéraire, the Philharmonie de Paris…

He has written for various formations ranging from instrument solo to wide ensemble, and mainly focuses on acoustic instruments, although some of his works include computer electronics and/or electric instruments (such as Shreds for Electric Guitar, Ensemble and Electronics, 2020)

Following the premiere of his latest ensemble piece Spin-Off as part of the Présences 2024 Festival at Radio France, he has composed several new chamber scores, duets and a solo for some of the most prominent musicians in France : Candeurs for the Diotima String Quartet (2025, recorded on France Musique), Nocturnes for Organ and Ondes Martenot (for Alma Bettencourt and Nadia Ratsimandresy, Radio France, 2025), Consolations for Saxophone and Piano (for Duo NeMeu, 2025-26), Précipitations for Solo Flute (a long-term collaboration with Emmanuelle Ophèle, 2025-26), and …Nimmer Still… for the Trio Sōra (2026)… His future projects include a new piece for Ensemble l’Itinéraire (to be premiered in 2027 in Paris, Madrid, and Buenos Aires).

As of 2025 he is also a professor of musical analysis at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where he has previously earned Master’s degrees in composition and musicology as well as four prizes. He has studied with Frédéric Durieux, Yan Maresz, Jean-Luc Hervé, and Valéry Aubertin, and has received advice from other composers such as Tristan Murail and Unsuk Chin.

His scores are published by Jobert/Henry Lemoine and Accordinova.