Lucas Debargue (born 23 October 1990) is a French pianist and composer. He was awarded fourth prize at the XV
International Tchaikovsky Competition.
Early life and education
Debargue was born in
Paris, France, on 23 October 1990. Growing up in
Compiègne, he took his first piano lessons there at the age of 10, with Christine Muenier.
He stopped his piano studies at 15,
becoming more interested in literature.
At 17 he relocated to Paris to study for a degree in Arts and Literature at
Paris Diderot University.
In 2010 he quit literature studies and returned to the keyboard. When meeting with teacher
Rena Chereshevskaya, he decided to become a professional musician and prepare for competitions.
He graduated under her direction in 2016, at the
École Normale de Musique de Paris "Alfred Cortot".
Career
In 2015 Debargue was awarded fourth prize at the XV
International Tchaikovsky Competition and the
Special Prize of the Moscow Music Critics Association for the musician "whose incredible gift, artistic vision and creative freedom have impressed the critics as well as the audience".
After the performance, Debargue was invited to play solo recitals, concerto engagements, and chamber music concerts at concert halls including the Great Hall of the
Moscow Conservatory, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, the
Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall, the
St Petersburg Philharmonic Hall, the
Theatre des Champs Elysées, the
Salle Gaveau, the
Milan Conservatory,
Wigmore Hall and
Royal Festival Hall
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in London, the
Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the
Prinzregententheater in Munich, the
Berlin Philharmonie
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The Philharmonie lies on the south edge of the city's Tiergarten and just west of the former Berlin Wall. The Philharmonie is on ...
, the
Konserthuset
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With a design by Ivar Tengbom chosen in competition, inaugurated in 1926, the Hall is home to the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic ...
in Stockholm, and
Carnegie Hall
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in New York.
He has collaborated with conductors including
Valery Gergiev,
Andrey Boreyko,
Mikhail Pletnev,
Vladimir Spivakov,
Yutaka Sado
is a Japanese conductor.
While still in school, Sado obtained a position in the Kansai Nikikai, a Japanese school of opera, where he had the opportunity to work with the New Japan Philharmonic and the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, learning operati ...
,
Tugan Sokhiev and musicians such as
Gidon Kremer,
Janine Jansen and
Martin Fröst.
Debargue records for
Sony Classical and was awarded the
ECHO Klassik prize in 2017.
In 2017 a documentary directed by Martin Mirabel (Bel Air productions), ''Lucas Debargue : To Music'', was released and selected for the
FIPA in Biarritz in 2018.
In 2019
Gidon Kremer named Debargue a "Kremerata Baltica permanent guest".
Compositions
* ''Concertino,'' for piano, string orchestra and drums (2017), premiered by the author and Kremerata Baltica in Cesis (Latvia).
* ''Quatuor Symphonique,'' for piano quartet (2018), premiered in the Centre de Musique de Chambre de Paris with Eva Zavaro (violin), Adrien Boisseau (viola) and Jerome Pernoo (cello).
* ''Trio'', for violin, cello and piano (2019), premiered in Théâtre des Champs-Elysées by the author and David Castro-Balbi (violin) Alexandre Castro-Balbi (cello).
Discography
Solo recordings
Chamber music
References
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1990 births
Living people
Musicians from Paris
Conservatoire de Paris alumni
21st-century French male classical pianists
Sony Classical Records artists