Composer and bass player, Yves Rousseau has forged himself a musical identity finding his inspiration from Johann Sebastian Bach’s architecture to Louis Armstrong’s swing, Léo Ferré’s voice, or even Django Reinhardt, Franz Schubert or Pink Floyd. He discovers the double bass listening to Pierre Michelot and Patrice Caratiniand will study the instrument with Jacques Cazauran at the CNR of Versailles between 1982 and 1987.

In 2019, his new septet Fragments brings together a completely renewed team, including saxophonist Géraldine Laurent. This programme, whose music is entirely original, celebrates the fullness and inventiveness of the music provided by the great pop/rock bands of the 1970s. 2020 sees the birth of the Alter Ego programme, commissioned by the Normandy Regional Orchestra for a meeting between the orchestra and the Burkinabe artist Oua-Anou Diarra, a griot and specialist of the Fulani flute of Guinean origin.