Leila Bordreuil

About

Leila Bordreuil (b. 1990, New York) is a French-American cellist, composer, and sound artist based in Brooklyn. She pushes the cello into extreme territory through unorthodox amplification and extended techniques - no effects pedals - generating psychoacoustic spaces that draw on noise, free jazz, and contemporary classical without settling into any of them. The New York Times described her music as "steadily scathing music, favoring long and corrosive atonalities". She has performed at MoMA PS1, Lincoln Center, and Berlin Atonal, and collaborated with Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Kali Malone, and Laurel Halo, among others.

Tone Glows best album 2024 ('1991, Summer, Huntington Garage Fire')

4.5

Average Discogs rating for 'Not an Elegy' (out of 5, based on 10 ratings)

What's new

2026-03
Bordreuil released the album 'Music for Intersecting Planes' together with organist Kali Malone via Ideologic Organ - recorded in natural light in a Swiss chapel.
2026-07
Bordreuil is booked for a concert at The Glad Cafe in Glasgow in July 2026 as part of a European tour.
2025-11
Bordreuil and guitarist Lee Ranaldo presented the new long-form piece 'Constellations' at Lampo in Chicago on November 8, 2025.
2025
Bordreuil has been awarded a Camargo Foundation Fellowship for 2025 with a residency in Cassis, France.
2024-09
The solo album '1991, Summer, Huntington Garage Fire' was released on September 11, 2024 on Hanson Records - a live improvised recording from a garden party where Bordreuil played modular synthesizer.