‍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.

‍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. 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.

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

‍Lionel Andrey is principal clarinetist of the Orchestre de Chambre Fribourgeois and is also a founding member of the Swiss Orchestra. Besides this, he 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. In Switzerland he has been playing with prestigious orchestras 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.

‍Lionel Andrey is a recipient of the Friedl Wald foundation and of the Migros Cultural Percentage.

‍Lionel Andrey was born in Lausanne in Switzerland in 1990. He studied at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in the class of Fabio Di Càsola, at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki in the class of Harri Mäki, and at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel in the class of François Benda.