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With infectious enthusiasm, young conductor Thomas Le Duc-Moreau conducts with great precision and artistic sensitivity, creating an effective and human symbiosis that is appreciated by musicians and audiences alike. His discipline and musical culture enable him to approach the repertoire with meticulousness and consistency, in a style that unfolds with ease, flexibility, and elegance. Starting in the 2025-2026 season, he is associate conductor of the St. Andrew and St. Paul Church Choir, as well as a guest professor at Laval University.

Upon graduating from the Conservatory, Thomas Le Duc-Moreau held positions as assistant conductor with the Quebec Symphony Orchestra and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. His early career was marked by notable collaborations. First as assistant to music director Kent Nagano, he also collaborated with guest conductors Bernard Labadie, Hannu Lintu, Cristian Măcelaru, Susanna Mälkki, Rafael Payare, and François-Xavier Roth. Since the beginning of his career, he has conducted more than 50 concerts with the OSM.

He has already collaborated on numerous opera productions. In particular, he conducted two new works in 2022 and 2023: Christian Thomas' Messe solennelle pour une pleine lune d'été, based on the play by Quebec author Michel Tremblay, and Yourcenar – Une île de passions by composer Éric Champagne, co-productions of the Quebec City Opera Festival, the Montreal Opera, and Les Violons du Roy. In the summer of 2024, he conducts La Vie parisienne at the Quebec City Opera Festival. He has also participated as assistant conductor in productions of Verdi's Il Trovatore and Puccini's Madame Butterfly at the Montreal Opera, Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer at the Quebec City Opera Festival, and Bizet's Carmen at the Bonn Theater in Germany.

In symphonic concerts, Thomas Le Duc-Moreau has conducted major Quebec and Canadian orchestras such as Les Violons du Roy and the Orchestre Métropolitain, as well as the symphony orchestras of Agora, Laval, Montreal, Quebec City, Rimouski, Saguenay, Sherbrooke, Hamilton, and Kitchener-Waterloo. He has also conducted the Prague National Theater Orchestra in the Czech Republic. In popular concert, he conducted Alexandra Stréliski's very first symphonic concert with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra as part of the Montreal Jazz Festival, broadcast on Radio-Canada television. 

In the summer of 2025, he returned to the Orford Music Festival with Les Violons du Roy for the third consecutive year.

Thomas Le Duc-Moreau graduated from the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal with a degree in cello under Carole Sirois and in orchestral conducting under Jacques Lacombe. In 2022, he received the very first Joseph Rouleau Award from the Fondation du Conservatoire de musique et d’art dramatique du Québec in recognition of his promising early career.