Biography

Remy Le Boeuf is a Grammy-winning composer and saxophonist whose music is rooted in the jazz tradition and overlaps into contemporary classical and experimental popular music realms. Le Boeuf is also the founder and director of the jazz orchestra, Assembly of Shadows, as well as the Chief Conductor of the Nordkraft Big Band in Denmark.  He has worked with a range of collaborators including notable jazz artists––Linda Oh, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Dayna Stephens, and Bob Mintzer, acclaimed classical artists––JACK Quartet, Akropolis Reed Quintet, and Caleb Hudson, and contemporary popular music artists––HAIM, Knower, and Prefuse 73, not to mention his identical twin brother Pascal, with whom he co-leads Le Boeuf Brothers.

With his debut jazz orchestra release, Assembly of Shadows (2019), Le Boeuf established himself as a unique voice with a penchant for cinematic majesty and melody-driven themes. Hailed by the New York Times for his music’s “overwhelming beauty,” he quickly earned two Grammy nominations for Best Instrumental Composition & Best Arrangement the following year. In 2021, he released a complementary sequel, Architecture of Storms (2021), showcasing his acrobatic saxophone playing while exploring the diversity of his emotions and influences. His sophomore album garnered two additional Grammy nominations for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album and Best Arrangement, Instrumental or a Capella. In 2024, Le Boeuf  released two jazz orchestra albums, Heartland Radio with his own band, and Strangers to Ourselves in collaboration with the Nordkraft Big Band. His latest jazz orchestra album, Silent Course (2025), is another collaboration with the Nordkraft Big Band featuring vocalist Danielle Wertz.

Le Boeuf has released several additional albums as a leader of other projects including his solo album and book, Vignettes II (2023), and his quintet album, Light as a Word (2019).  He has also recorded and performed extensively as co-leader of Le Boeuf Brothers. His most recent album with Le Boeuf Brothers, Off Center (2026), features longtime collaborators Dayna Stephens, Linda May Han Oh, and Christian Euman.

Le Boeuf's list of honors include commissions from Chamber Music America, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and the Symphonic Jazz Orchestra, as well as 7 ASCAP Young Composer Awards, the BMI Foundation's Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Prize, the Sammy Nestico Award, and the Copland House Residency Award. He has received additional awards from the Doris Duke Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Copland Fund, YoungArts, Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation, New York Youth Symphony, International Society of Jazz Arrangers and Composers, International Songwriting Competition, and Society of Composers.

Le Boeuf is an Assistant Professor and Director of Jazz and Commercial Music Studies at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music.