Born in Ottawa, Thierry’s musical education began with choral and vocal music, followed by studies composition, music theory and early music performance at McGill University (B.Mus. 2009) with Christoph Neidhöfer and Brian Cherney. As a Fondation Ricard and Canada Arts Council Fellow, he received his Masters degree in composition from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in 2011 under Richard Ayres, followed by an Advanced Studies diploma at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in 2013, under Brice Pauset.