Henri Colombat is a composer exploring the different possible relationships between poetic images, theatricality, sound and space.

His music has been performed by the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Nief-Norf, Ensemble Dal Niente, United Instruments of Lucilin, Quatuor Bozzini, Martin Wistinghausen and Trio Emerillon. Colombat has been recognised by the Remus Georgescu International Competition and KLANG! (category b) in 2023, BMI Student Composer Awards in 2020 and 2019, the Luba Zuk piano duo composition competition in 2018, and the Louis Cheslock Award in Composition in 2015.

In March 2024, Henri and Pierre-Nicolas Colombat released Sept fois cis, a concept album documenting daily musical experimentations presented as a critique of streaming platforms and the disengaged modes of listening they foster. The album is available on bandcamp, and on apple music and spotify under a secret pseudonym which is revealed to listeners who pay the artists directly (with money or otherwise). Bandcamp Daily featured the album on its list of Best Field Recordings: April 2024.

In November 2023 he was invited to co-facilitate an intensive workshop on creative music making at Oakland University combining improvisation, performance and co-composition culminating in a concert of student creation. In 2020, Colombat’s composition Giacometti, tâtonnant was interpreted by the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra and broadcast on the Belgian TV channel Podium 19. His short analysis of a work for violin and piano by composer Eric Wubbels is published on the ACTOR project website. The next piece in his series of studies on the connection between photography and musical theater Étude sur le flou will be created by Proxima Centauri at the MAD festival in November 2024 in Bordeaux as part of the Mixed Academy.

As an arts organizer, he has interned and worked for the instrument inventors initiative (iii), Pulsar on CISM 89,3, the McGill Association of Student Composers, and Le Vivier InterUniversitaire. He holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in composition and theory from McGill University where he was a Max Stern fellow. Colombat completed the one-year Sonology course at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague in 2021-22 and the computer music composition course at IRCAM in Paris in 2022-23.