Antonin-Tri Hoang, born in 1989 in Paris, is a clarinettist, saxophonist, and composer. He started the classical clarinet at the age of nine and quickly moved to jazz by discovering the swing of the 1930s. His father-in-law, a rock guitarist who was a manouche jazz lover, encouraged him to improvise very soon. Antonin-Tri Hoang then learned saxophone and piano and plunged into jazz history. From the beginning, he performed very often on stage in a variety of contexts, including saxophone, clarinet and piano, as well as theatre and play. A Beast on the Moon by Richard Kalinoski (five Molière in 2001). At the age of 16, he entered the jazz class and improvised music, directed by Riccardo Del Fra of the CNSMD in Paris. Then he attended the general improvisation class led by Vincent Lê Quang. In 2007 he wrote a tribute piece for and with Michel Legrand to piano at the New York IAJE. He composed music for two films by director Ambarish Mannepalli: Cross-cast 2008 and Wink of The Eye in 2009. He also composed for two exhibitions by Pierre Huyghe: The Host and The Cloud in October 2009 and February 2010. In 2009 he was spotted by Daniel Yvinec artistic director of a new ONJ formula whose musicians chosen at the heart of the new French jazz scene are multi-instrumentalist and of different cultures. He co-founded the band November, the band of four WATT clarinets (with Julien Pontvianne, Jean Dousteyssier and Jean-Brice Godet), Grand Bazar with pianist Eve Risser for a program Ligeti/Carla Bley/J-S.Bach/Aphex Twin, participates in the quintet of the drummer Anne Paceo, the Aum Grand Ensemble, the Matteo Bortone's Travellers, the Guilhem Flouzat One Way or Another, at the Umlaut Big Band directed by Pierre-Antoine Badaroux... With Jean-Jacques Birgé and Vincent Segal he recorded film music and performed in public on Landscapes, experimental film by Jacques Perconte. In 2011 he released his first duo album with Benoit Delbecq, Aeroplanesunder the Bee Jazz label. He plays saxophone and bass clarinet. In 2017, he received the Swiss Life Prize with 4 hands, with photographer SMITH, which allowed him to compose a 16-way spatial score for their installation at the Palais de Tokyo as part of the exhibition The Dream of Forms. In 2019, he created Disappearances at the Festival d'Automne in Paris and stage the musical theatre Chewing Gum Silence directed by Samuel Achache with whom he created new pieces for which he assumed the artistic and musical direction: Original Based on Lost Copy at the Aquarium Theatre in 2020, Concerto against piano and orchestra (2021) and The Symphony Falling From Heaven (2024) at the Théâtre de l'Athenée, The Incredulous (2025) produced by the National Opera of Nancy-Lorraine. He also plays in Peplum by Fantazio and Théo Ceccaldi, in the trio Fakebooks[ with Thibault Cellier and Sylvain Darrifourcq. He participates as an interpreter in theatre projects such as The Fall of the House or Tarquin, directed by Jeanne Candel with the Cie Short life, or recently with the show Koudour d-Hatice Özer. He played and recorded regularly with Jean-Jacques Birgé (Animated, Dreams and Nightmares, In every sense of the word, Centenary of Jean-Jacques Birgé, 21st century Persepectives, Pique-nique au labo, etc.).
