Gabriel Dharmoo is a composer, vocalist, improviser, drag performer and researcher.

After studying with Éric Morin at Université Laval, he completed studies in composition and analysis at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal with Serge Provost, graduating with two "Prix avec grande distinction", the highest honour to be awarded. His works have been performed in Canada, the U.S.A, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Estonia, Poland, Australia, Singapore and South Africa. He has received many awards for his compositions, such as the Canada Council for the Arts Jules Léger Prize for his chamber work Wanmansho (2017) and the Conseil Québécois de la Musique Opus Award for his opera À chaque ventre son monstre (2018). He was also awarded the Canadian Music Centre’s Harry Freedman Recording Award (2018), the MusCan Student Composer Competition (2017), the SOCAN Jan V. Matejcek Award (2016), the Canada Council for the Arts Robert Fleming Prize (2011), the Fernand-Lindsay Prix d'Europe composition prize (2011) as well as 6 prizes from the SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers. 

Having researched Carnatic music with 4 renowned masters in Chennai (India) in 2008 and 2011, his personal musical style encourages the fluidity of ideas between tradition and innovation. He has participated in many cross-cultural and intertraditional musical projects, many being led by Sandeep Bhagwati in Montreal (Sound of Montreal, Ville étrange) and in Berlin (Zungenmusiken, Miyagi Haikus). 

As a vocalist and interdisciplinary artist, his career has led him around the globe, notably with his solo show Anthropologies imaginaires, which was awarded at the Amsterdam Fringe Festival (2015) and the SummerWorks Performance Festival (2016). They also explore queer arts and drag artistry as Bijuriya (@bijuriya.drag).

Gabriel has performed across Canada (Montréal, Québec, Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph, Vancouver, Victoria, Banff, Winnipeg, Halifax, St. John's), Sydney (Australia), Istanbul (Turkey), Cardiff (Wales), Berlin and Köln (Germany), Oslo (Norway), St-Louis (USA) as well as Amsterdam and Utrecht (Netherlands). In 2013/14, a development grant from the Canada Council for the Arts allowed him to work with vocalists Phil Minton (UK) and Ute Wassermann (Germany), as well as yodel and overtone specialist Christian Zehnder (Switzerland) and beatboxer Shlomo (UK). 

He is an associate composer at the Canadian Music Centre as well as a member of SOCAN, the Canadian New Music Network and the Canadian League of Composers. Since 2015, Gabriel is a PhD candidate at Concordia University's PhD "Individualized Program" with Sandeep Bhagwati (Music), Noah Drew (Theatre) and David Howes (Anthropology). 

2019 Opus Award Concert Premiere of 2018-19 (À chaque ventre son monstre – Ensemble Paramirabo)
2018 Harry Freedman Recording Award from the Canadian Music Centre (Notre meute)
2017 Jules Léger Prize from Canada Council for the Arts (Wanmansho)
2017 1st Prize at 2017 MusCan Student Composer Competition (the fog in our poise)
2017 1st Prize at the Prix collégien de musique contemporaine (Futile Spells)
2016 Jan V. Matejcek SOCAN Award
 2016 Contra Guys Award for New Performance Text at SummerWorks Performance Festival (Anthropologies imaginaires)
2015 Best International Production at Amsterdam Fringe Festival (Anthropologies imaginaires)
2015 Rhoda and Arthur Rodbell Graduate Scholarship – Concordia University
20153rd Prize at the Prix collégien de musique contemporaine (Vestiges d'une fable)
2013 2nd Prize at the Prix collégien de musique contemporaine (Ninaivanjali)
2012 1st Prize SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Audio-visual Composers (Durga)
2012Finalist at the International Composition Competition Città di Udine – Taukay Edizioni Musicali (Italy) (sur les rives de)
2011 Fernand-Lindsay Award from Académie de musique du Québec's Prix d'Europe for composition
2011 Robert-Fleming Prize from Canada Council for the Arts
 2010 2nd Prize Godfrey-Ridout SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers (Vaai Irandu)
2008 2nd Prize Pierre-Mercure SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers (Chapelets)
2008 2nd Prize Godfrey-Ridout SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers (Le jour de mon mariage avec Dieu)
2006 3rd Prize Sir-Ernest-MacMillan SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers (D'arts moults)
2002 1st Prize Godfrey-Ridout SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers (À l'homme) 

Podcast on Vocal Improvisation, by Allegra Young (Banff Centre)