Ingmar Lazar (b. June 22, 1993 in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French classical pianist.
Ingmar Lazar began playing the piano at the age of five in Paris. He was quickly noticed at various piano competitions where he won 1st Great Prices (UFAM, Claude Kahn, FLAME). He made his debut at age six in the Salle Gaveau and gave his first recital at age nine at the Garibaldi Theatre at Figline Valdarno in Italy.
A year later, he won the International Competition of piano EPTA in Namur, Belgium. He has since then been invited to give concerts in France (Atrium Magne, Moulin d'Andé, Schola Cantorum, Salle Cortot, Grand Auditorium of Caen, Great Hall of UNESCO, Gilles de La Rocque Auditorium in Courchevel, Congress Hall Center Henri Oreiller in Val d'Isère, International piano Festival of Dinard, International piano Festival "Musique à la Cour" in Solliès-Pont,"Randonnées musicales en Gâtinais" Festival), in Italy (Auditorium St Nicolo with the Symphony orchestra of the Festival of Chioggia), in Slovenia (Philarmonic Hall of Ljublijana), in Russia, (Moscow International House of Music with the Moscow Virtuosi chamber orchestra under the baton of Vladimir Spivakov and Great Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory), in Germany (Kloster Isenhagen, Lister Turm, Theater Cavallo, Konzerthaus Berlin, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), in Lithuania (Philarmonic Hall of Vilnius), and in Romania (Radio Hall with the Radio Chamber Orchestra of Bucharest).
His repertoire ranges chronologically from Bach and Scarlatti to Hovounts and Podgaitz, and includes works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Ciurlionis, Prokofiev, Ravel, Debussy, Achron, Weinberg which he plays in solo recital or with the cellist Suren Bagratuni and the violinist Alexandre Brussilovsky.
Ingmar Lazar has also played on television (Mezzo TV, TF1, Métropole Télévision, Téva) and on radio Europe 1 where he was invited to play Mozart at the time of the celebration of the 250th birthday of the composer.
In 2008 he recorded two CDs for Suoni e Colori with Alexandre Brussilovsky, and he was the Winner of the "Young Talent" category of the C.I.M. International Academy in Val d'Isère, France.
He has studied piano with Vladimir Viardo, Konstantin Bogino, Valery Sigalevitch and theory and harmony with Françoise Levechin-Gangloff. Currently he is continuing his musical education at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover in the class of Vladimir Krainev.
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