Lucas Debargue

Lucas Debargue (born October 23, 1990) is a French pianist and composer.

Early life and education

Debargue was born in Villers-sur-Coudun, France on October 23, 1990. He took his first piano lessons at the age of eleven at the Conservatory Of Music De Compiègne with Christine Muenier.^[1] He stopped his piano studies at 15,^[2] becoming more interested in literature^[3]. At 17 he relocated to Paris to study for a degree in Arts and Literature at Paris Diderot University, and for two years, had a part-time job at a supermarket.^[4]

In 2010 he performed at the Fête de la Musique festival in Compiègne, marking his return to the keyboard. Shortly after he began studies with Rena Shereshevskaya at the École Normale de Musique de Paris "Alfred Cortot".^[2]

Career

In 2015, Debargue won the fourth prize at the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition and the special prize awarded by 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".^[5] After this remarkable showing, Debargue was invited to play solo recitals, concerto engagements, and chamber music concerts at such prestigious halls as 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 in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Prinzregententheater in Munich, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Konserthuset in Stockholm, and Carnegie Hall in New York. He also collaborates with such conductors as Valery Gergiev, Andrey Boreyko, Mikhail Pletnev, Vladimir Spivakov, Yutaka Sado, Tugan Sokhiev and with such musicians as Gidon Kremer, Janine Jansen and Martin Fröst.^[6]

He currently records for Sony Classical. He was awarded the ECHO Klassik prize in 2017.

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