Yuri Goloubev Jazz & Classical Double Bassist

A double bass player for any kind of line up - from jazz to classical.

Bio:

One of the most interesting and sought-after jazz double bassists in Europe, Yuri Goloubev
toured over 60 countries across continents appearing at such venues as Carnegie Hall in New
York, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Barbican Centre in London, Sydney Opera House, Berlin
Philharmonie, Theatre des Champs Elysees in Paris and festivals as Montreux Jazz Festival,
Umbria Jazz, London Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz, Festival of Perth, Jazzahead, Boheme Jazz,
Saalfelden Jazz Festival, Brecon Jazz Festival – to name just a few. His collaborations include
such artists as Bob James, Till Brönner, Chico Freeman, Kenny Werner, Ralph Towner, Billy
Kilson, Julian Arguelles, Alex Sipiagin, Norma Winstone, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Paolo Fresu,
Enrico Pieranunzi, Gwilym Simcock, Pablo Held, Tim Garland, Rosario Giuliani and many
others.
A multi-award winner - 1st prize in the All-Soviet Union Student Competition (1990), New
Names Scholarships (1996/97), “Honoured Artist of Russia” (2002) - Yuri has participated as
leader, co-leader and sideman in well over 100 albums to date, released by SONY, EMI, ACT,
Universal, Basho and other notable labels. Some of these records have been used by British
Airways, Swiss, Lufthansa, Emirates and Air France for their inflight entertainment programs.
A Moscow Conservatory graduate (1995), from 1992 to 2004 Yuri has been serving as
Principal Bass of the famed Moscow Soloists Chamber Orchestra directed by Yuri Bashmet.
Since the mid-1990s, Goloubev has also been progressively active on the jazz scene which
eventually led him to abandoning his classical career entirely in 2004. This switch from
performing at the world’s most important classical venue for many years with the likes of
Rostropovich and Richter, Galway and Quasthoff and recording for EMI and SONY Classical
(including a Grammy nomination) to reaching a similar level in jazz career made Yuri
Goloubev a true rarity and exception in the music world.

From 2007 till 2009, Yuri has been a jazz faculty member of Centro Professione Musica in
Milan (CPM), in 2010/2011 he taught at F.A.Bonporti Conservatoire (Trento, Italy); currently
(since 2015), Yuri teaches at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (Cardiff) as well as
at Wells Cathedral School in the United Kingdom – alongside his career as a recording and
performing artist.