Born in Lyon (France), Yann Dubost began studying music with the violin, then the double bass. He studied with Philippe Guingouain and Bernard Cazauran, graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique (CNSM) de Lyon, and joined in 2002 the Orchestre de Paris, at the age of 19. He worked three summers with Seiji Ozawa in his International Music Academy – Switzerland. Among his many awards are : 1st prize of the Haverhill Soloist Competition (England) in 2004, 1st prize of the International Society of Bassists Solo Competition (USA) in 2005 and 3rd prize at the Premio Valentino Bucchi (Roma) in 2008. He became in 2011 principal double bass in the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, conducted by M.W. Chung. As guest principal Yann has played in the London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Opéra National de Lyon, les Siècles, les Dissonances…
Yann is very much appreciated as a chamber musician, his partners include Martha Argerich, Paul Badura-Skoda, Renaud & Gauthier Capuçon, Bertrand Chamayou, Myung-Whun Chung, Augustin Dumay, Christoph Eschenbach, Pierre Fouchenneret, David Guerrier, Steven Isserlis, Alexandre Kantorow, Jean Rondeau, and the quartets les quatuors Danel, Diotima, Fine Arts, Hermès, Modigliani, Strada… He regularly takes part in festivals such as Deauville, Les Arcs, Les Musiques in Marseille, Folle Journée in Nantes, Flâneries in Reims, Festival International de Besançon, Palazzetto Bru Zane, Printemps des Arts (Monte-Carlo), Schleswig-Holstein, Ultraschall, Rheingau (Germany), Carinthischer Sommer, Schwarzenberg (Austria), Arties (India)… He is very much interested in all kinds of music. He has frequently played classical music with the Ensemble Pygmalion, the Cercle de l’Harmonie, and is a founder of the trio “Les Tromano” for violin, accordion and bass.
As a soloist, he had the pleasure to play with orchestras such as the Bedford Sinfonia, Haverhill Sinfonia, Orchestre Mozart Toulouse, Münchener Kammerorchester… He was invited to give a recital in the 2007 and 2009 International Society of Bassists conventions, and was guest musician for the French Victoires de la musique 2017. Fond of contemporary music, member of the Ensemble Itinéraire, he premiered and recorded several pieces by O. Adamek, F. Bedrossian, Y. Chauris, C. Roqué-Alsina, R. Wilson… Yann has also met and worked with composers such as Henri Dutilleux, György Kurtag, Michaël Levinas, Betsy Jolas…
He has recorded for Albany Records (solo pieces by Richard Wilson), Alpha (Schubert octet, and Lucien Durosoir with Diotima quartet), Timpani (André Caplet with Ardeo quartet, and Claude Debussy with Debussy quartet), B Records (Mendelssohn sextet), NomadMusic (les Tromano)… He plays a double bass made by Giuseppe Zanotti in 1733, former property of the renowned musician and teacher Yoan Goïlav. Yann Dubost teaches at the Conservatoire de Paris (CRR and PSPBB).