Lucas Debargue
“The incredible gift, artistic vision and creative freedom” of Lucas Debargue was revealed by his performances at the Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow in 2015 and distinguished with the coveted Prize of the Moscow Music Critics’ Association.
Today, Lucas Debargue is invited to play solo and with leading orchestras in the most prestigious venues of the world including Berliner Philharmonie, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Konzerthaus Vienna, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and Philharmonie de Paris, London’s Wigmore Hall and Royal Festival Hall, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Cologne Philharmonie, Suntory Hall Tokyo, the concert halls of Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Seoul, the legendary Grand Hall of Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, the Mariinsky Concert Hall in St Petersburg and Carnegie Hall in New York.
Lucas Debargue regularly collaborates with Andrzej Boreyko, Valery Gergiev, Mikhail Pletnev, Vladimir Jurowski, Tugan Sokhiev, Vladimir Spivakov and Bertrand de Billy. His chamber music partners include Gidon Kremer, Janine Jansen, and Martin Fröst.
The artist forged a highly unconventional path to success. Having discovered classical music at the age of 10, the future musician began to feed his passion and curiosity with diverse artistic and intellectual experiences, which included advanced studies of literature and philosophy. A performer of fierce integrity and dazzling communicative power, Lucas Debargue draws inspiration for his playing from literature, painting, cinema, jazz, and develops very personal interpretation of a carefully selected repertoire. He devotes a large part of his time to composition and has already created over twenty works for piano solo and chamber ensembles.
Sony Classical has released five of his albums with music of Domenico Scarlatti, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Fryderyk Chopin, Ferenc Liszt, Maurice Ravel, Nikolai Medtner and Karol Szymanowski. In 2021, Sony released a new CD entirely dedicated to the Polish composer Miłosz Magin: Żal – a true discovery of a fascinating yet unknown composer recorded with Kremerata Baltica and Gidon Kremer.
[2023]