After obtaining a 1st Price DANTE AGOSTINI Drum School (Teachers Nadia TOUCHE, Gille TOUCHE, Jacques- François JUSKOWIAK) in PARIS in 1987, OLIVIER Le GOAS began to play in trio with guitarist ERIC LOHRER, and bassist LAURENT CAMUZAT, with whom he won the 2nd price of orchestra at the 1988 DEFENSE Jazz Competition, toured intensely, and recorded two albums (Eric LOHRER trio, DANS LE BLEU). Paralelly he play, and tour with among others, the piano player Bojan ZULFIKARPASIC, the Big Band «Lumière» of the piano player, composer, and arranger LAURENT CUGNY, the doublebass player JEAN-FRANCOIS JENNY-CLARK,the vibes player David PATROIS, the piano player BENOIT DELBECQ, then joined the group MAHORI featuring the guitar player DAVID CHEVALLIER, and quintet of piano player Jean-Michel PILC. In 1995, he participated in the Jazz Workshop at the Banff Center (CANADA), where he met the Canadien English Resident bugle, trumpet player, and composer KENNY WHEELER with whom he recorded in LONDON UK14 years later the album SUR LES CORPS DES KLAXONS published on his own label REWIND RECORD ( RR1001). In 2003 he was awarded a LAVOISIER scholarship for French Students Abroad (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs / EGIDE), and went to study in NEW YORK CITY U.S.A in the departement of jazz and contemporary music program at New School University (2003 ), where he follows the teachings among others of the trumpet player Charles TOLLIVER, the piano player Peter ZAK, the guitar player Rory STUART, the composer Kurt NUROK, the drummers Jeff BALLARD and Eric McPHERSON. During his stay he plays among others with Ben MONDER, Jason LINDER, Avishai COHEN (trp), Jacques SCHWARTZ-BART, Tim LEFEVRE

Over the past fifteen years, OLIVIER Le GOAS has released six albums as a leader. First album recorded with the guitar player JOHN ABERCROMBIE, the trumpet player RALPH ALESSI and the bass player DREW GRESS at the famous CLINTON RECORDING STUDIO in NEW YORK CITY U.S.A, GRAVITATIONS was released in 2007 on the Swiss record label ALTRISUONI (AS204); released on the same label (AS260) in 2009, TRILOG Seven Ways, is a trio project recorded in Paris with ther guitar player MANU CODJIA and the saxophone player VINCENT MASCART; In 2009 Olivier Le GOAS created his own record label REWIND RECORD on which will appear successively in 2010 and 2013, SUR LES CORPS DES KLAXONS (RR1001) recorded in quartet with KENNY WHEELER, and ABSTRACT (RR1002) a project recorded in septet in PARIS FR with among others David CHEVALLIER and the saxophone player Alban DARCHE.

Composing a new repertoire, Olivier brought the guitar player NIR FELDER, the piano player KEVIN HAYS and the doublebass player PHIL DONKIN to the legendary BAUER STUDIOS - LUDWIGSBURG GERMANY in October 2015. Includes 8 new original strongs compositions, presenting polyrhythmic structures of basic metric forms developed, full of contrasts, proposing offers melodic and a lyric repertory, RECIPROCITY, was released on September 2, 2016 on German Record Label NEUKLANG (NCD4139). NEUKLANG will also be releasing THE GRAVITATIONS SESSION PART.II including 6 unfulfilled tracks from the GRAVITATIONS session in December 2017.
After having made a promotional tour with RECIPROCITY feat. Nir FELDER, John ESCREET and the polish doublebass player Max MUCHA presenting his own music in Europe in May 2017, OLIVIER Le GOAS presents ON RAMP of HEAVEN DREAMS his new album recorded in 2019 in NYC U.S.A with Nir FELDER, John ESCREET and the doublebass player Larry GRENADIER, and released on CHALLENGE RECORD INT. in January 2020.