NEWS ! Yann Dubost, prize-winner of the Swiss Global Artistic Foundation, March 2009.

        Yann Dubost was born in Lyon (France) in 1983. His talent and his originality established him as one of the most promising young double bassist of the young generation. He was award winner of the Cziffra Foundation for 2007 and has been chosen to be part of the CultureFrance's "Declic" scheme 2008, sponsored by Radio France-Société Générale, which supports the most outstanding young French classical musicians. Among his many awards are: 1st prize of the International Competition of Wattrelos (France) in 1999, 1st prize of the Haverhill Soloist Competition (England) in 2004, 3rd prize of the Premio Valentino Bucchi (Roma) in 2008 and 1st prize of the International Society of Bassists Solo Competition (USA) in 2005.

        His regular pianist partners are Yannaël Quenel, Nima Sarkechik and Yann Ollivo. He has given the opening recital of the last ISB Convention in Oklahoma City in June 2007, and was invited as a soloist for the festival ModFest in Vassar College (NY) in 2008. Fond of contemporary music, he premiered and recorded several pieces for solo bass and has been member of the Ensemble Itinéraire since 2002. Yann has met and worked with composers such as Henri Dutilleux, György Kurtag, Michaël Levinas, Betsy Jolas, Marc-André Dalbavie... He recorded recently “Digital” by Frank Bedrossian (Sismal Records), and especially written for him “Gravitas” by Richard Wilson (Albany Records).

        He regularly takes part in several festivals such as Deauville, Belaye, Les Arcs, Les Musiques in Marseille, La Folle Journée in Nantes, Les Rencontres Musicales d'Enghien (Belgium)... His chamber music partners include Bertrand Chamayou, Antoine Tamestit, Roland Pidoux, Régis Pasquier, Svetlin Roussev, Augustin Dumay, Quintette Moragues, Modigliani quartet... Seiji Ozawa selected him twice (in 2006 and 2008) to take part in his International Music Academy – Switzerland, where Yann worked with Maestro Ozawa, Robert Mann, Pamela Frank, Nobuko Imai and Sadao Harada. Yann is very much interested in all kinds of music. He had been part of the gypsy trio NOMAD lib' for two years and is now member of the trio “Les Tromano” for violin, accordion and bass.

        Yann Dubost studied with Philippe Guingouain and Bernard Cazauran, graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon, and joined in 2002 the Orchestre de Paris, at the age of 19. During 2006, he has also been Principal Double bass in the London Symphony Orchestra. Yann Dubost is musician in residence in the Singer-Polignac Foundation in Paris, and since March 2009 is actively supported by the Swiss Global Artistic Foundation.


Press :

"The gifted first prize winner of the 2005 ISB solo competition gave a polished, musically mature and elegant recital debut."
Bass World, issue n°31, fall 2007.

Yann Dubost played “the Double Bass Concerto by Sergei Koussevitzky in which he demonstrated musicianship of the highest calibre, which rightly earned him three curtain calls.”
East Anglian Daily Times, June 2006

"Contrairement à ce que Pierre Boulez a pu dire à propos de la réalisation systématiquement mauvaise des micro-intervalles [...], ceux de Yann Dubost se révélèrent d'une précision irréprochable"
Bertrand Bolognesi, Anaclase.com, january 2005.