Andy Emler (PSPBB) I 12.11.26

In partnership with the Pôle Supérieur Paris Boulogne-Billancourt, La Petite Halle welcomes the renowned composer Andy Emler!

ANDY EMLER

After graduating from the CNSM with a prize in counterpoint, Andy Emler began his career in 1981.

As an accompanist, improviser and composer, he travels the world alongside François Jeanneau, Michel Portal, Trilok Gurtu and Dave Liebman.

In 1989, Andy Emler founded the MegaOctet, a large ensemble made up of virtuosos of national and international renown. Since then, this laboratory of living music has toured the stages of France and Europe without interruption up to the present day. Without borders, with the MegaOctet, Andy Emler created, alongside choreographer Léa Cazauran, a hybrid show blending hip-hop dance and contemporary music, as well as a work for a choir of 100 voices.

Between 1994 and 1999, he served as co-director of the Scène et Marnaise de Création Musicale.

In 2002, the Trio ETE was formed, with Éric Échampard and Claude Tchamitchian, the unshakeable rhythm section of the Andy Emler MegaOctet, whose latest album, There is another Way, is due for release in spring 2026.

Andy has also composed the music for the stage production Ravel, directed by Anne-Marie Lazzarini, in March 2013, based on texts by Jean Echenoz. On this occasion, he received the Prize for Best Stage Music Composer from the Syndicat de la Critique in 2013. Three Django d'Or awards and two Victoires du Jazz later, Andy Emler was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2014. In 2023, Andy Emler brought together a team of eight virtuoso clarinettists for the creation Le temps est parti pour rester. This new large ensemble brings together musicians from the jazz and improvised music worlds as well as from classical music. He composed the latest creation for the Onj and EIC, conducted by Fred Maurin, in 2024, alongside Sofia Avramidou.