Sylvain Le Ray Quintet

After a first trio album, “The Unchosen Way”, (“revelation” Jazz Magazine), pianist and composer Sylvain Le Ray tries his hand at a larger formation with his new quintet. With his friends met at the CMDL he expresses an intense, sensitive and sometimes poetic music. Influenced by the modern jazz of Tigran Hamasyan, Ben Wendel as well as his Breton origins, Sylvain Le Ray will take you on a journey between traditional, classical and jazz music...

Winner of the "Youth & Jazz" stage of the Jazz Festival in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, he graduated in musicology, obtained his DEM and the congratulations of the jury and fell in love with jazz as soon as he began to play. in orchestra. He participates in numerous projects and approaches a wide range of musical styles: Jazz, Funk, Hip-Hop, pop, traditional Breton music, electro, rock/folk, salsa, Brazilian music, Guadeloupe music... His first album released in his name ("The Unchosen Way", August 2020) invites the listener into his imagination, drawing on jazz, classical music and traditional music.