Bio
Rémy Labbé is a Belgian Jazz Trumpet Player, Songwriter, Orchestrator, Big Band Leader "Le Big Band de Rémy Labbé", Producer and Educator.
A graduate of Berklee College of Music (BM '15) and Manhattan School of Music (MM '18), Labbé is an Arranger for the Grammy-Award-winning band "The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra" directed by Arturo O'Farrill', the WE Big Band (Hasselt, Be), the Greg Ruvolo Collective (NYC), the Big Up Band (Geneva, Ch), and the "Geneva Chamber Orchestra - OCG" (Geneva, Ch).
Since September 2021 Labbé is a Jazz Theory and a Brass Chargé de Cours at the Jazz Department of the Luxembourg Music Conservatory (Luxembourg City, Lu).
Currently Labbé's main projects as a leader/co-leader are "Rémy Labbé Quintet", "Rémy Jean Labbé" his songwriting and pop music personal project, and "Eddy Pero et le Big Band de Rémy Labbé" (Paris, Fr) .
Highlights.
Education and Awards.
Rémy Labbé is a Belgian Jazz Trumpet Player, Songwriter, Orchestrator, Big Band Leader "Le Big Band de Rémy Labbé", Producer and Educator.
A graduate of Berklee College of Music (BM '15) and Manhattan School of Music (MM '18), Labbé is an Arranger for the Grammy-Award-winning band "The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra" directed by Arturo O'Farrill', the WE Big Band (Hasselt, Be), the Greg Ruvolo Collective (NYC), the Big Up Band (Geneva, Ch), and the "Geneva Chamber Orchestra - OCG" (Geneva, Ch).
Since September 2021 Labbé is a Jazz Theory and a Brass Chargé de Cours at the Jazz Department of the Luxembourg Music Conservatory (Luxembourg City, Lu).
Currently Labbé's main projects as a leader/co-leader are "Rémy Labbé Quintet", "Rémy Jean Labbé" his songwriting and pop music personal project, and "Eddy Pero et le Big Band de Rémy Labbé" (Paris, Fr) .
Highlights.
- An Orchestrator/Arranger for the 'Orchestre de Chambre de Genève (OCG)' directed by Maestro "Arie Van Beek". Their Christmas concert "A Tribute to Stevie Wonder" was live-streamed and broadcasted by Swiss Television Channel "Léman Bleu" on December 5th 2020. From the Victoria Hall (Geneva, Ch).
- A featured Arranger for the grammy award winning band "The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra" on the album "Virtual Birdland" released on April 9 2021. Among other projects with Arturo O'Farrill' we can mention the "Abu Dhabi tour" early 2019, "An Evening of Fandango" in May 2019, a Chamber Music project called "Songs of Love and Resistance" in March 2019, and also a Jazz Octet project featuring guitarist Lionel Loueke at the Symphony Space (NYC) back in December 2018.
- A Writer/Arranger for the Greg Ruvolo Collective as part of Greg's "Tribute to Clark Terry" back in May 2019 at Birdland Jazz Club (NYC) .
- In April 2019 Labbé appeared on Grammy-Award-Winning Artist and Dream Theater Keyboardist Jordan Rudess' album "Wired For Madness". He wrote a 7-piece horn arrangement on the track "Just Can't Win". It features Blues Icon Joe Bonamassa on Guitar.
- Rémy Labbé Quintet and Rémy Labbé Trio featured at the Gaume Jazz Festival (Belgium) in 2021 and 2014.
- Holder of a Master Degree in Electrical Engineering from the "Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain (UCL, Belgium)"
Education and Awards.
- Graduated Summa Cum Laude from Manhattan School of Music (MM '18). After two years of mentorship with James 'Jim' McNeely.
- Graduated Summa Cum Laude from Berklee College of Music (BM '15).
- Recipient of the Ray Kotwica Brass Award from Berklee College of Music for 'Outstanding Musicianship' in 2013
- A recipient of the European-Tour-Award scholarship from Berklee College of Music in 2012.
- Holder of a Superior Prize ("Prix supérieur en trompette Jazz", class of G. Waltzing) from the Luxembourg Music Conservatory (Lu) in 2011.
