Lucas Debargue

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Albums
Scarlatti Chopin Liszt Ravel
  FR 191 04/16/2016 (1 week)
Bach Beethoven Medtner
  FR 174 10/01/2016 (1 week)
Scarlatti: 52 sonatas
  FR 156 05/10/2019 (1 week)

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

Life

Training and beginnings

Debargue was born in Paris and grew up in Villers-sur-Coudun as the son of an operating room nurse and a kinesiologist. From the age of 9 Debargue was engaged in classical music - listened to sound recordings, taught himself to read music and took piano lessons from a local teacher. At the age of 11 he became a student of Catherine Muenier at the Conservatory in Compiègne . At the age of 15 Debargue gave up playing the piano, played the electric bass in a rock band and began studying literature at the Diderot University in Paris at the age of 17 , which he dropped out after six semesters. Debargue turned back to the piano in 2010, studied in the class of Philippe Tamborini at the Conservatory in Beauvais and graduated with a diploma in piano and chamber music. In 2011 Debargue became a student at the Rueil-Malmaison Music School and later at the École Normale de Musique de Paris - both in the classes of Rena Schereschewskaja . At the same time Debargue studied in the class of Jean-François Heisser at the Paris Conservatory and successfully completed his piano studies in 2015 with the diploma examination.

Starting in 2013, Debargue prepared intensively with Schereschewskaja for the Tchaikovsky competition and worked as a jazz pianist in the bar Le Chat Noir on Place Pigalle in Paris and as a répétiteur at a ballet school . In 2014 he won the Adilia Alieva competition in Gaillard , France.

Tchaikovsky competition

Debargue took part in the 15th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in the summer of 2015 and won 4th place. Debargue was honored by the Moscow Music Critics Association for his competitive performance "which is of unique musical importance" and for his "great talent, whose artistic vision and creative freedom has inspired critics and audiences alike" and for a solo concert in the International House of Music in Moscow invited.

Debargue, who was perceived as an outsider, became the audience favorite during the competition due to his solo performances, particularly Medtner's piano sonata op. 5 and Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit in the second round. His concert performance in the final round - Debargue's first appearance with a symphony orchestra - did not convince the majority of the jurors. The Russian jury members Boris Berezovsky , Denis Mazujew and Dmitri Baschkirow publicly distanced themselves from the joint decision after the announcement of the rating, as they judged Debargue's performance to be "unique" and saw him in one of the top places.

Valery Gergiev , who acted as the patron of the Tchaikovsky Competition, invited the fourth-placed Debargue, contrary to custom, to the final winners' concert on July 2, 2015 in the Great Concert Hall of the Moscow Conservatory , the pianist brought Tchaikovsky's 1st piano concerto and Rachmaninov's 4th piano concerto with the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra conducted by Gergiev for a lecture. Geriev then engaged Debargue for a series of concerts at the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theater, which began on July 14, 2015 with a publicly broadcast solo recital. Shortly thereafter, Debargue signed a record deal with Sony Classical and has been represented internationally by Columbia Artists Management since October 2015.

Career

Since then, Debargue has performed internationally with solo and orchestral concerts. In 2016 he was booked for around 60 concerts. In November 2016 Debargue gave a solo concert in Munich's Prinzregententheater , with works by Scarlatti, Ravel and Franz Liszt. In January 2017 Debargue played a solo recital in the chamber music hall of the Berlin Philharmonic , also with works by Scarlatti, Beethoven, Liszt and Ravel.

In April 2016, Debargue's debut recording was released by Sony Classical , a live recording from November 2015 from the Salle Cortot in Paris. The recording was awarded the Edison Dutch Music Prize. The second album was released in September 2016, for which Debargue received the Echo Klassik in 2017 . The third solo album was released in October 2017 and Debargue's first chamber music recording in November 2017.

Awards

  • 2014: first prize at the Adilia Alieva competition in Gaillard.
  • 2015: Prize of the Association of Moscow Music Critics for musical performance at the 15th Tchaikovsky Competition.
  • 2016: Edison in the Debut category for the album Scarlatti • Chopin • Liszt • Ravel .
  • 2017: Echo Klassik in the category Young Artist of the Year for the album Bach • Beethoven • Medtner .

Discography

Solo recordings

Chamber music

Compositions

  • Variation I to the sonata K. 208 by Domenico Scarlatti . Recording for Sony Classical in November 2015 at the Salle Cortot in Paris.
  • Orpheo di camera , Concertino for piano, percussion and string orchestra. World premiere on June 9, 2017 with the Kremerata Baltica under the direction of Gidon Kremer in Cēsis , Latvia.
  • Trio pour piano et cordes for violin, cello and piano. Performance in the auditorium of the Fondation Louis Vuitton on September 29, 2017.
  • Improvisation on the Luther chorale A solid castle is our God . Performance as part of the Echo Awards on October 29, 2017 in the Elbphilharmonie .
  • Quatuor Symphonique for violin, viola, cello and piano. World premiere on March 29, 2018 in the Center de musique de chambre de Paris.

Movies

  • Lucas Debargue: tout à la musique (international title Lucas Debargue: To music ), documentary (2017), 84:00 min., Director: Martin Mirabel, production: Bel Air Media. First broadcast on September 29, 2017 in the auditorium of the Fondation Louis Vuitton, table of contents (French with English subtitles).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lucas Debargue in the French charts
  2. ↑ Compiègne: Lucas Debargue gagne ses galons de pianiste virtuose en Russie. Le Parisien , August 12, 2015, accessed November 1, 2018 (French).
  3. ↑ a b Takis Würger : "How weak we are". Der Spiegel , edition 08/2018.
  4. ^ A b Elijah Ho: Meet Lucas Debargue, the Young Classical Pianist Breaking All the Rules. KQED Arts, February 9, 2017, accessed November 1, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Kai Luehrs-Kaiser : The gentle eccentric. Fono Forum, issue 05/2016, page 31.
  6. ^ Alain Brunet: Lucas Debargue: la vitesse du cerveau et le pouvoir de l'obsession. La Presse , December 4, 2017, accessed November 1, 2018 (French).
  7. ↑ Ismene Brown: Q&A Special: Pianist Lucas Debargue. the arts desk.com, July 11, 2015, accessed November 1, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Michael Stallknecht: The genius and the monkeys. Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 8, 2016, accessed on November 1, 2018 .
  9. ↑ 9th International Adilia Alieva Piano Competition. Académie Internationale Supérieure de Musique Adilia Alieva, accessed on October 26, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Irina Muravjowa: Tchaikovsky Competition: Music at the highest level. In: Russia Beyond the Headlines . Rossijskaja gaseta , July 3, 2015, accessed on November 1, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Ismene Brown: Tchaikovsky piano competition sees self-taught Frenchman take Russia by storm. The Daily Telegraph , July 6, 2015, accessed November 1, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Ken Iisaka: Lucas Debargue Thrills and Challenges With his Unconventional Approach. San Francisco Classical Voice, February 14, 2017, accessed November 1, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Jan Brachmann: As a good Russian, you don't spit on France. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 15, 2018, accessed on November 17, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Ismene Brown: Tchaik thrives. Rhinegold Publishing, August 5, 2015, accessed November 1, 2018 .
  15. ^ Ismene Brown: International Tchaikovsky Competition: Outside Favorite. Rhinegold Publishing, November 26, 2015, accessed November 1, 2018 .
  16. ^ Corina Kolbe: The uncanny pianist. Crescendo , March 9, 2016, archived from the original on March 18, 2018 ; accessed on November 1, 2018 .
  17. ^ A b Roland Mackes: Lucas Debargue. The audio didact. Rondo , accessed on November 2, 2018 (issue 2/2016, published on March 17, 2016).
  18. ↑ Lucas Debargue recital. Mariinsky Theater , accessed on November 1, 2018 (English).
  19. ↑ Lucas Debargue. On-line broadcast from the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theater. 14 July 2015. In: YouTube . Mariinsky Theater , January 21, 2017, accessed November 1, 2018 .YouTube
  20. ↑ Lucas Debargue. Sony Classical , accessed November 1, 2018 .
  21. ^ Columbia Artists Management proudly welcomes pianist Lucas Debargue to its distiguished roster of artists. Columbia Artists Management, October 26, 2015, accessed November 1, 2018 .
  22. ↑ Lucas Debargue - piano . Event information Bell'Arte Konzertdirektion Dr. Schreyer. Retrieved January 21, 2017.
  23. ↑ Lucas Debargue in the chamber music hall: Lucas with the spider fingers . Concert review. In: Tagesspiegel from January 20, 2017. Retrieved January 21, 2017.
  24. ↑ Winnaars 2016. Edison , accessed October 26, 2018 (Dutch).
  25. ↑ Cesis, Latvia. Kremerata Baltica, accessed October 26, 2018 .
  26. ↑ Lucas Debargue Trio Recital. Fondation Louis Vuitton , accessed September 8, 2018 .
  27. ↑ Echo Klassik 2017: Lucas Debargue. Appearance. In: YouTube . Echo - German Music Prize , October 30, 2017, accessed on November 1, 2018 .YouTube
  28. ↑ 29/03/18-19:30 Boeuf de Chambre. Center de musique de chambre de Paris, accessed September 8, 2018 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Debargue, Lucas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris