The Swiss-French composer Richard Dubugnon was born in 1968. He was called ‘the son of Ravel and Prokofiev’ in the French newspaper Le Figaro, because of the obvious link of his work with earlier French masters as well as Russian and Eastern European composers. His music, described as ‘emotionally turbulent’ in The Strad magazine, combines refined harmonies with complex counterpoint as well as an original sense of structure and form. His love for the voice, opera, film scores and funk gives his music great lyricism, a narrative direction and a strong feeling of rhythm and dynamics. Dubugnon’s chamber music often has an orchestral dimension and shows great awareness of colour.