Keiko Devaux is a contemporary music composer based in Montréal. Her approach embraces a love of electroacoustic sounds and methodology by manipulating and distorting acoustic sound with digital tools, and then transcribing or retranslating it back into musical notation and the acoustic realm. Her varied interests include emotional experience and affect, auto-organizational phenomena in nature and living beings, and “genre-blurring” between traditional tonal sounds and more electroacoustic-inspired “noise” gestures, as well as contrasting parameters of stylistic genres.

Her works have been performed in Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, the United States and Israel by various ensembles, including Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Quatuor Molinari, Trio Fibonacci, Ensemble Arkea, Quartetto Prometeo, Musica assoluta, Sturm und Klang, the Jasper String Quartet, the Rolston String Quartet, the Talea Ensemble and the Israel Contemporary Players, among many others.

She has received numerous prizes and awards, notably the Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year, the Opus Award for Composer of the Year, the Azrieli Commission for Canadian Music, the Jan V. Matejcek New Classical Music Award, and the Rotary Club Siena Award for distinction in her master courses with Salvatore Sciarrino.

From 2016 to 2018, she served as composer-in-residence with Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne. From 2020 to 2022, she was in residence with the NAC Orchestra as a Carrefour composer. She is an associate composer with the Canadian Music Centre, former president of the board of directors of Codes d’accès, and past organizer of the Montreal Contemporary Music Lab.