Gabriel Lemaire is a French musician born the 8th of March 1989. He is a saxophonist (alto and bariton), clarinetist (Bb and alto), improviser and composer.

He learned from Bertrand Dubreuil, Jean-Charles Richard, Francis Lecointe, Guillaume Orti and Hayden Chisholm.

He currently plays with a lot of bands going from the SOLO to the orchestra. Among them, the trio YA SO MA, the duo ARQUES/LEMAIRE, the saxophones quartet MACHAUT, MAÂT orchestra, MARCEL & SOLANGE,  WALABIX, TOONS and the GRAND ORCHESTRE du TRICOT. Moreover, he works in the theater with LES OISEAUX MAL HABILLES and the performance with LA THEORIE DU NUAGE.

He co-founded the collectif les BATISSEURS DE PONTS, that organized concerts of improvised music each week in Orléans (France), as well as TRICOLLECTIF, that gathers musicians from Orléans and Paris around improvised musics.

He plays and/or played with Sophie Agnel, Guillaume Aknine, Eric Amrofel, Yves Arques, Jean Aussanaire, Quentin Biardeau, Samuel Blaser, Richard Bohringer, Joao Camoes, Théo Ceccaldi, Valentin Ceccaldi, Adrien Chennebault, Quentin Conrate, Fran Cossavella, Simon Couratier, Alexis Coutureau, Stéphane Decolly, Fidel Fourneyron, Anouck Genthon, Frank Gratkowski, Léo Jassef, Liz Kosack, Théo Lanau, William Laudinat, Nicolas Larmignat, Francis Lecointe, Bart Maris, Anton Mobin, Christophe Monniot, Roberto Negro, Poline Renou, Florian Satche, Arthur Simonini, Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer, Luis Vicente, Luise Volkmann, Etienne Ziemniak.

He plays throughout France and abroad in different venues, including the Chatelet’s theater, the Météo festival, Jazz à Vienne, Europa Jazz, D’Jazz Nevers, les Détours de Babel, le Petit Faucheux, Una Striscia di Terra Feconda, Paris Jazz Festival, Jazz à la Défense, l’AJMI, Luberon Jazz, Jazzdor à Strasbourg, Chinon Jazz Festival, Charlie Free, the Malakoff’s theater, the Orléans’ theather, the Hot Club de Gand, the Hot Club de Porto, the Salao do Brazil in Coimbra, De Werf…