Yannick Paget simultaneously started conducting as Marek Janowski’s assistant during six years at the Orchestre Français des Jeunes. In 1999, he entered the conducting class at the Conservatoire National Supérieur of Paris (CNSMDP - Janos Furst) and studied at the same time at the Royal College of London in Niel Thomson’s class (2000). He also worked with Yutaka Sado, Jorma Panula and Jonas Aleksa (Lithuanian Symphony Orchestra).

Debuts in Paris
Yannick Paget approaches opera as well as major symphonic works and contemporary music. Between 1995 and 2005, he was the musical director of the Oya Kephale chorus and orchestra, an operetta troop with one new production each year, essentially operettas by Jacques Offenbach. In 1996, he created the Alma Symphony Orchestra, comprised of young graduates of the CNSMDP and performed a large scale of symphonic repertoire. As for contemporary music, he recorded for the broadcast Mezzo and worked with the Ensemble Cairn, created by composer Jérôme Combier (IRCAM) as percussion player and conductor.

Between 2001 and 2004, Yannick Paget became Yutaka Sado’s assistant at the Concerts Lamoureux, a leading Paris orchestra. He worked closely with him in rehearsals, during recordings, and conducted the orchestra in concert at the Theater of Chatelet, at the Caen Theater and at the Theater of Champs-Elysées.

Yannick Paget works globally and is established in Japan since 2004
In 2004, Yutaka Sado hired him as associated conductor of the “Hyogo Performing Art Center Orchestra” in Nishinomiya near Osaka in Japan. Yannick Paget participates actively in the creation of this new international formation, recruiting the musicians all over the world. He conducts the orchestra in a wide range of symphonic and lyric programs in Nishinomiya Symphony Hall, but also in Tokyo, Kyushu, and Sapporo. He works with Tom Koopman, Michiyoshi Inoue, Gianandrea Noseda, the composer Mathias Pincher and the musicians Adolph Herseth (CSO), Johann Ströcker (Vienna philharmonic), Toru Yasunaga (Berliner Philarmoniker)...

Since 2008, Yannick Paget is musical director of Osaka Kyoiku University's Orchestra where he music trains the students to become professional musicians. Yannick Paget gives numerous concerts with them every year, mainly at Izumi Hall in Osaka, investigating the whole symphonic repertoire. The orchestra welcomes guest soloists such as Simon Bernardini (Berliner Philarmoniker). Within his work at the University, he also gives conducting courses and Master classes.

In 2009, Yannick Paget debuts with the Orchestra of Picardy. He also assisted the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (OSR) in Puccini's Madama Butterfly for the Chorégies in Orange (France), conducting the rehearsals with the singers Veronica Villarroel, Marco Berti and Anthony Michaels-Moore and working closely in this project with Janine Reiss. Yannick Paget worked also with the pianist Fazil Say and assisted Kristjan Jarvi at the Münchner Rundfunkorchester.

Invited to conduct the Kansai City Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Paget gave several concerts in Osaka Symphony Hall and in 2010 became their first guest conductor.

For the coming season,
Yannick Paget will continue his activities with the University's Kyoiku Orchestra and the Kansai City Orchestra. He will also debut with the Brasov Philharmonic Orchestra (Roumania) and the Sakai City Opera in a production of Romeo and Juliet's Gounod.