Lionel Andrey is a demanded Swiss clarinettist, especially for chamber music. He is frequently invited to play in different festivals and concert series such as the Lucerne Festival, the Davos Festival, the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, the festival Lavaux Classic, Schubertiade d’Espace 2, Swiss Chamber Music Festival in Adelboden, Label Suisse festival and abroad…

He premiered pieces by Michael Jarrell (Assonance 1b, Lavaux Classic Festival), the famous clarinetist Charles Neidich (Tempest in a Tea Pot, Crusell Viikko Festival, Finland) and many others...

His recitals and chamber music concerts were recorded live for the radios Espace 2 and SRF Kultur in Switzerland, France Musique in Paris, Yle in Finland, in Japan, etc…

With his Trio Eclipse he is a prizewinner of different competitions, including the prestigious « Osaka International Chamber Music Competition » in 2017 and the Migros Chamber Music Competition 2019 in Zürich. The Trio Eclipse is regularly invited to perform in different venues and countries. For example at the Lucerne Festival (2019), for a concert and workshop tour in Jordan on the invitation of the Swiss Embassy (2018), for a live concert at France Musique in Paris (2017), in New-York (2017), etc…

Lionel Andrey is a member of the Duo Arto and of the Reeds in Motion Quintet.

Lionel Andrey has been invited to play as a guest principal clarinetist with Spira Mirabilis in Italy, with the Finnish Radio Orchestra in Helsinki and with the Auckland Philharmonia in New-Zealand.

He has also been playing with prestigious orchestras in Switzerland such as the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Musikkollegium Winterthur, the Camerata Bern, the Sinfonieorchester Basel, the Gstaad Festival Orchestra under the baton of N. Järvi, S. Mälkki, J. Weilerstein, D. Boyd, M. Venzago, H. Lintu, etc...

Since 2022 Lionel Andrey has been principal clarinetist of the Orchestre de Chambre Fribourgeois.

Lionel Andrey is a recipient of the Friedl Wald foundation (2014) and of the Migros Cultural Percentage (2015 and 2016).

From 2014 to 2018 Lionel Andrey is co-organisator of the festival « Week-End Musical de Pully ».

Lionel Andrey was born in Lausanne in Switzerland in 1990. In 2008 he begins his studies at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in the class of Fabio Di Càsola and from 2010 he continues his studies at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki in the class of Harri Mäki. He finishes his studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel in the class of François Benda.