Emilio Teubal is an Argentine pianist, composer, and arranger based in New York. He has released seven albums as a bandleader and composer and has contributed as a sideman to numerous recordings, including Vigor Tanguero by the Pedro Giraudo Quartet, which won the 2018 Latin Grammy for Best Tango Album.
A prolific composer and arranger, Emilio identifies his artistry and creative search to the music of Latin America and the permanent elasticity of stylistic limits. His latest record, Seven Etudes, is a collection of piano pieces which evoke echoes of Latin American folk, jazz, and contemporary classical music. This followed the release of Futuro which was included on the list of 2023 Best Jazz albums in Bandcamp .
Earlier in his discography, Emilio released Tides (2020), an album of composed and improvised solo piano music, issued by New Focus Recordings and distributed by Naxos. In 2018, he released Memorias de Otro Tiempo, written for the Emilio Teubal Trio featuring Federico Díaz on guitar and Iván Barenboim on clarinet. That album was named “Best Jazz of the Month” on Bandcamp in February 2018. His 2013 release Música Para Un Dragon Dormido, on the Brooklyn Jazz Underground label, was widely recognized by the press and chosen as one of the best jazz albums of the year. Dave Sumner of Bandcamp Daily described it as “as near to perfection as you can get.” The album features long-time collaborators Moto Fukushima, Sam Sadigursky, and John Hadfield, with guest appearances by Erik Friedlander and Satoshi Takeishi. Emilio’s earlier recordings include"La Balteuband" (2006), and "Un Monton de Notas" (2009) which includes the piece “El Amanecido,” featured in the documentary film Meet the Patels.
Emilio is also the author of two books of piano compositions. Tides and Other Works for Piano. (2020) includes music from the Tides album, while his most recent publication, Seven Etudes & Reflections (2025), including the compositions recorded on the album “Seven Etudes” plus seven pieces, The Reflections, that that mirror the Etudes in various ways—whether through tonality, motif, groove, or concept—yet are intentionally more approachable.
Throughout his career, Emilio has earned numerous accolades. He was the winner of the 2022 Ise-Shima Art Comitee's Popular Music Composition Competition in Japan. That same year, he was awarded second place in the Tango Composition Contest at the Kavala Tango Days Cosmopolis Festival in Grece, and in 2024, he received second place in the Mandolina Composition Competition organized by Edition 49 in Germany. In 2007, he was awarded the prestigious Van Lier Fellowship from Meet The Composer.
His work as a composer has led to a wide range of commissions. These include a piece commemorating the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation, commissioned by Saint Peter’s Church in New York in 2017; a solo guitar composition written for virtuoso Dan Lippel in 2019; a work for the Adam Tully Trio featured on the album La Llegada in 2016; a piece for the Japanese experimental ensemble Music KART in 2020; and a composition for violinist Machiko Ozawa featured on her 2022 album Mi Oblivion II, released by Composers Concordance Records. In 2023 he also wrote a trio for clarinetist Thomas Percy, commissioned by the New York State Council for the Arts.
A versatile Pianist who can navigate through different styles of written and improvised music, Emilio has performed in some of the most prestigious venues and theaters in the United States such as The Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Symphony Space, The Blue Note, Birdland, Le Poisson Rouge, and Joes Pub. He has been touring Japan regularly since 2018 performing at the most prestigious theaters and music venues in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Hiroshima, and other cities. He has also been an essential member of the Tango, Latin, and Jazz scene of New York performing and recording with the Pedro Giraudo Quartet (2018 Latin Grammy winner), Marta Gomez, Adam Tully Trio, Pablo Lanouguere Quintet, Colectivo Tangente, Sergio Reyes’s Romancero Latinoamericano, Los Chantas tango group, Sam Sadigursky, Erik Friedlander and Satoshi Takeishi to name a few.