Yannick Délez is a Swiss pianist-composer. Self-taught from a very young age, he undertook professional studies at the Ecole de Jazz de Lausanne in 1990 where he obtained a piano diploma. He developed a personal style of playing within many acoustic jazz bands and then joined the band Piano Seven (7 pianos and guests) with which he recorded four albums and played in many concert halls in Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, Taipei, Singapore, Beirut and Beijing, Shangai, Saigon, among others. He participated in three premières of the group for which he composes and arranges, one of those being an original performance with 7 pianos, percussion and brass quintet for the Swiss National Exhibition in 2002 . 

The first record bearing his name is “Rouge” (Altrisuoni, 2003) a piano solo album that received international acclaim. Here, one can appreciate the distinctive characteristics of his piano playing whch is both pointillist and lyric. …“based on rhythmical ostinati and a truly original technique…” (RSR La Première), “… a family of thinking favouring romantic lyricism and sophisticated harmonic choices…” (Jazzman***). 

In 2004 he composed a work for piano, bass clarinet and soprano saxophone, and created his own trio (Yannick Délez Trio) with Philippe Ehinger (bass clarinet) and Stefano Saccon (soprano saxophone). They were selected for the Swiss Diagonales Jazz 07.

In 2004 he also formed a Duo with the singer Chloé Lévy. In December 2006, the Duo recorded its first album “Leinicha” at the Rainbow Studio in Oslo with the audio engineer Jan Erik Kongshaug. “Leinicha” received great acclaim from specialised press (Jazzman****, Télérama ffff, Concerto*****). 

In 2010 he published his second piano solo album : “Boreales” (UnitRecords UTR 4271) which also received great reviews from the European press (Jazz’n’more *****, Concerto ****) 

In 2016 he published a third piano solo album. “Live / Monotypes” (UnitRecords / Deutschland- radio UTR 4755) a double album based on a live performance recorded by Deutschland radio.