Paul Lay is a french pianist & composer, born in 1984. After 10 years of collaboration with Laborie Jazz label and 4 releases (Unveiling 2010, Mikado 2014, The Party and Alcazar Memories 2017), Deep Rivers was released to great critical acclaim. In 2021, Paul Lay releases on Laurent de Wilde's Gazebo label his first solo album around Beethoven's pieces: FULL SOLO. Regularly invited abroad, Paul Lay performs in New York, Toronto, Berlin, Warsaw. He regularly tours Germany, Russia, Peru, Mexico, Dominican Republic, China, Japan. In October 2020, Paul Lay is awarded « Instrumental Artist » of the year by VICTOIRES DU JAZZ. In 2014, Paul Lay won the prestigious Charles Cros Academy Prize for the best international jazz album of the year with his album Mikado. In 2016, Paul Lay received the « Django Reinhardt » Prize for the best french jazz musician of the year. He was also elected best young french jazz talent of the year by a poll of critics produced by Jazz Magazine.