Akropolis Chamber Music Institute

Described as "sleek, new" and "hyper-fluent" by the New York Times, Pascal Le Boeuf is a GRAMMY-award winning composer, jazz pianist, and electronic artist whose works range from modern improvised music to hybridizing notation-based chamber music with production-based technology.

Recent compositions include “Imprints” for Alarm Will Sound; “Playground” commissioned by Orchestra of St. Lukes; “Triple Concerto” for violin, percussion duo and orchestra featuring Barbora Kolářová and Arx Duo; “I Am Not A Number” commissioned by New World Symphony; and “Out of the Gate” commissioned and premiered by Nu Deco Ensemble.

Recent commercial recordings and videos include collaborations with Akropolis Reed Quintet & Christian Euman, Tasha Warren & Dave Eggar, Friction Quartet, JACK Quartet, Hub New Music, Todd Reynolds, Sara Caswell, Jessica Meyer, Nick Photinos, Four/Ten Media, Bec Plexus featuring Ian Chang (of Son Lux), Dayna Stephens, Allan Harris, Linda Oh, Justin Brown, and the Le Boeuf Brothers Quintet (co-led by Remy Le Boeuf) praised by the New Yorker for "clearing their own path, mixing the solid swing of the jazz tradition with hip-hop, indie rock, and the complex techniques of classical modernism". 

As a keyboardist, Pascal has played as support for D’Angelo’s Black Messiah tour and Clean Bandit’s Rather Be tour with Australian pop artist Meg Mac. He actively performs with Le Boeuf Brothers, Jessie Montgomery’s Everything Band, vocalist/technologist Jamie Lidell, saxophonist Jeff Coffin, jazz vocalist Allan Harris, and his piano trio "Pascal's Triangle".

Pascal’s most recent awards include 2025 GRAMMY for “Best Instrumental Composition”, a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2020 Copland House Residency Award, and various Independent Music Awards in “Jazz”, “Eclectic”, “Electronica” and “Music Video” categories.

Pascal is an Assistant Professor of Music at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he teaches composition. He holds a Ph.D. in Music Composition from Princeton University where he was the recipient of a Harold W. Dodds Honorific Fellowship. He received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Manhattan School of Music where he studied jazz piano with Kenny Barron.

Pascal lives in the Boston area with his wife, composer Molly Herron, and their two kids Baxter and Io.

Performances by Andy Hudson have been hailed as “a treat for the listener” (IAWM Journal) and have been praised for “an uncommon singularity of purpose, technical virtuosity, youthful vigor and a mature sensitivity” (The Clarinet). An “inspiring” (MMR) and “fearless” (Cacophony) performer, he has performed widely across North America, Europe, and Africa in solo, chamber, and orchestral settings in some of the world’s great venues. Praised for his "measured sophistication and expansive phrasing" (Voix des Artes), Andy has been a top prizewinner at the MTNA National Woodwind Competition and has received other prizes in numerous competitions. He has recently performed with the Atlanta, Charlotte, Sarasota, and North Carolina symphonies, and was appointed Bass/3rd Clarinetist of the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra in 2020; other festival appearances include the Lucerne, Bang on a Can, Hot Air, Sound Atlas, and Great Lakes Chamber Music festivals. 

“Truly a performer for the moment" (CVNC) with an "irrepressible musicality" (The Clarinet), Andy is a noted interpreter of contemporary music and has premiered 200+ works to date. He has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on their MusicNOW series and is clarinetist/bass clarinetist with Miami’s Nu Deco Ensemble and the Raleigh-based ensemble earspace. He is Artistic Director and clarinetist with the international sextet Latitude 49, with whom he can be heard on the albums The Bagatelles Project, Wax and Wire (called “a must-have album for any lover of contemporary music” by The College Music Symposium), Don't Say A Word, and Obsolete Music. His debut solo album halfway home released in 2022 on Potenza Music (called “exceptional” by The Clarinet) and his two books on contemporary pedagogy, Elements of Contemporary Clarinet Technique and SPACE BASS: Advanced Explorations for Bass Clarinet, are co-authored with Roger Zare for Conway Publications.  

Andy joined the faculty of the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music as Associate Professor of Clarinet in the Fall of 2023, and has given guest masterclasses at many of the world's great centers for musical study, including conservatories and universities in Romania, South Korea, Egypt, Canada, and across the United States. Previously, he taught at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, where he was a nominee for the James Y. Joyner Award for Teaching Excellence and the NC State Chair for the International Clarinet Association. Andy is an Artist-Clinician for Buffet Crampon, a Vandoren Performing Artist, and an Ambassador for Rovner Products; he holds degrees from Northwestern University (DMA, MMus) and the Schwob School of Music (BMus). When he’s not practicing, you are likely to find him cycling, trail running, reading, or listening to baseball on the radio.