Saxophonist Emile Parisien (1982) has received some of the most prestigious awards in  French and European jazz: he was awarded the Prix Django Reinhardt in 2012, he was the French artist of the year at Victoires du Jazz 2014, and he won the ECHO Jazz Award as best international instrumentalist (woodwinds category) awarded by the German music critics.

He studied in Marciac and Toulouse, and from early on in his career he had the opportunity to meet with jazz icons during the Marciac Jazz festival. In 2000 he moved to Paris where he would later form a quartet inspired with the music of Coltrane, Shorter and Coleman, as well as 19th and 20th century classical music. He played, among others, with Michel Portal, Jacky Terrasson, Daniel Humair, Yaron Herman, Joachim Kuhn, John Taylor, Jean-Paul Celea, Hugo Carvalhais, Roberto Negro… After his exquisite performance with Vincent Peirani at the 2016 Belgrade Jazz Festival, for the first time in Serbia he presents his own quintet, expressionist at its core and with improvisation as the main feature. He leads another quintet with Joachim Kuhn and he performs in a duo with Kuhn, Negro or Peirani.