Lucas Debargue, Piano – Solo Recital Debut at Carnegie Hall
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- Lucas Debargue, piano
Domenico Scarlatti — Keyboard Sonata in A major, K. 24
Domenico Scarlatti — Keyboard Sonata in D major, K. 491
Domenico Scarlatti — Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K. 141
Maurice Ravel — Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55
Frédéric Chopin — Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38
Frédéric Chopin — Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 45
Frédéric Chopin — Polonaise-Fantasy in A-flat major, Op. 61
Franz Liszt — Après une Lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata ("Dante Sonata")
Pianist Lucas Debargue, whose breakthrough performance at the Tchaikovsky International Competition in 2015 put him on the map, makes his solo recital debut at Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage. Debargue returns to Carnegie Hall, making his solo recital debut.
For his solo recital debut at Carnegie Hall, Debargue has chosen music that has been meaningful to him over the years. The Chopin pieces have been with him since he was a teenager, the Scarlatti sonatas for harpsichord were a welcome challenge to adapt for the modern piano and were featured on his celebrated 2019 recording of Scarlatti's 52 Sonatas on Sony Classical, chosen by NPR as one of "the 10 classical albums to usher in the next decade." The Ravel is a staple in his repertoire that Debargue describes as a "discovery" every time he plays it. His affinity for Liszt's "Dante" Sonata comes from its literary inspiration. Debargue says,
"My connection to music is very much influenced by my connection to literature. I am very much counting on the narrative dimension of music. That’s why I like to play long, epic pieces, because I like to tell a story. I like to tell the story that the composer wanted to tell, but I also like to recognize myself in some of the characters the composer created, to feel myself taken in the story."
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http://www.cherryorchardfestival.orgAbout Lucas Debargue, piano
Born in 1990, Lucas 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. The encounter with the celebrated piano teacher Rena Shereshevskaya proved a turning point: her vision and guidance inspired Lucas to make a life-long professional commitment to music.
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. Though the core piano repertoire is central to his career, he is keen to present works by lesser-known composers like Karol Szymanowski, Nikolai Medtner, or Milosz Magin.
Since dazzling audiences at the 2015 Tchaikovsky International Competition, French virtuoso Lucas Debargue is invited to play solo and with leading orchestras in the most prestigious venues of the world including Berlin Philharmonie, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Konzerthaus Vienna, Théâtre des Champs Elysées and Philharmonie 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, and of course the legendary Grand Hall of Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, the Mariinsky Concert Hall in St. Petersburg and Carnegie Hall in New York. He also appeared several times at the summer meetings of La Roque d’Anthéron and Verbier.
Lucas Debargue regularly collaborates with Mikhail Pletnev, Vladimir Jurowski, Andrey Boreyko, Tugan Sokhiev, Vladimir Spivakov and Bertrand de Billy. His chamber music partners include Gidon Kremer, Janine Jansen, and Martin Fröst.
Lucas devotes a large portion of his time to composition and has already created over twenty works for piano solo and chamber ensembles. These include Orpheo di camera concertino for piano, drums and string orchestra, premiered by Kremerata Baltica, and a Piano Trio was created under the auspices of the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris. As a permanent guest Artist of Kremerata Baltica, Lucas has been commissioned to write a chamber opera.
Sony Classical has released five of his albums with music of Scarlatti, Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Ravel, Medtner and Szymanowski. His monumental four-volume tribute to Scarlatti, which came out at the end of 2019, has been praised by The New York Times and selected by NPR among “the ten classical albums to usher in the next decade.”