Winner of a Latin Grammy and six-time Grammy nominee, Emilio Solla is an Argentine-born pianist and composer based in New York City. He trained in classical piano at the National Conservatory of Music in Buenos Aires and earned his master's degree in Jazz Composition from the Aaron Copland School of Music in New York City. His first project, Apertura (1986), was praised by Astor Piazzolla as one of the most interesting proposals on the Buenos Aires scene. With thirteen albums as a leader and more than fifty as an arranger and producer, Solla is considered one of the most original voices in tango-jazz, a language that fuses tango and Argentine folklore with jazz and other contemporary music.

After living in Barcelona since 1996, he settled in New York in 2006, where he has collaborated with figures such as Paquito D'Rivera, Arturo O'Farrill, Yo-Yo Ma and Edmar Castañeda, among others. His projects have been presented on stages such as Jazz Standard, Jazz at Lincoln Center and Birdland, with musicians of the caliber of Donny McCaslin, Chris Cheek, Omer Avital, Jorge Rossy and Jeff Ballard. In 2015, his orchestra La Inestable de Brooklyn received a Grammy nomination for their album Second Half, and in 2019 his Tango Jazz Orchestra released Puertos, an album awarded the Latin Grammy for Best Jazz Album, while his composition La Novena was nominated for a Grammy for Best Instrumental Arrangement.

In recent years he has expanded his work into the symphonic field, with premieres at the Palau de la Música de Barcelona, the Chicago Symphony Hall and the Teatro Colón from Buenos Aires. In 2023, he launched two new projects: a quartet with singer and saxophonist Antonio Lizana, and a symphonic tribute to Chick Corea with Paquito D'Rivera, published by Warner Classics and recognized with Grammy and Latin Grammy nominations. At the same time, he carries out intense teaching work: he is a professor at the New School of Music in New York and has been invited to give residencies and master classes at universities and conservatories in Europe, the United States, and Latin America.