Richard Dubugnon was born in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1968 and has both Swiss and French citizenship. He started music at the age of 20 after studying History in Montpellier, France. He was accepted in 1992 at the Paris Conservatory, where he graduated with three prizes: 1st Prix for Counterpoint (1993), 1st Prix for Double Bass (1995, class of J-M. Rollez), and 2nd Prix for Fugue (1994). Richard also studied Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Paul Patterson, from which he graduated in 1997 with a DipRAM and a Master of Composition degree. He was awarded a Manson Fellowship of Composition in 1998-99.
As a Double bass soloist, Dubugnon regularly performs modern music of his own and of other composers. He followed masterclasses with Gary Karr and Jorma Katrama as a student, then started to play regularly as a soloist. He has appeared in major concert halls in Paris, London, ZÃŒrich, Lausanne, and Geneva, and toured the USA (New York, Washington, Chicago).
He recently gave the premiere of his Mikroncerto I for piccolo-double bass and orchestra at St John's, Smith Square (London) and performed it shortly after in Paris, at Radio France with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.
