Portrait
Yann Besson is a French luthier based at Les Essards, just north of Bordeaux, specialising in violas and cellos. He has been making full time since 2002.
Born in 1976, he began his apprenticeship at the French National Violin Making School of Mirecourt in 1991 and graduated in 1996 with a distinction rarely awarded. He then worked in a number of workshops around the world, an experience that pushed him towards a personal style rather than a school one. Every instrument leaves with his own certificate.
His instruments are played by international artists, and he has built a strong reputation among musicians in London in particular.
Yann specialises in violas and cellos and his work is always in high demand with us. The cellos speak with a single unified voice, with a consistency across the strings and through the range that is more unusual than it sounds and makes them very reliable in performance. The violas sound wonderful in every register and project with ease, with a depth and richness that carries in chamber music, orchestra or solo playing equally well. He is very well known in the UK and France for good reason.
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Where are Yann Besson instruments made?
In Les Essards, France, just north of Bordeaux.
