Ingmar Lazar piano

Ingmar Lazar, born in 1993, is one of the outstanding French pianists of his generation. After studying at the Hanover University of Music, Theatre and Media, at the International Piano Academy on Lake Como, at the University of Italian Switzerland (Lugano), at the Mozarteum University Salzburg and at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole with Valery Sigalevitch, Alexis Golovin, Vladimir Krainev, Bernd Goetzke, Dmitri Bashkirov, Malcolm Bilson, Fou Ts'ong, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Pavel Gililov and Elisso Wirssaladze, he has taken the great stages of Europe by storm, including the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. Ingmar Lazar is the founder and artistic director of the Festival du Bruit qui Pense and is a great fan of chamber music. He performs with Pierre Amoyal, Alexandre Brussilovsky, Giuseppe Gibboni, Benjamin Herzl, Stanislas Kim, Danielle Laval, Jean-Claude Pennetier, François Salque, Christoph Seybold, Igor Tchetuev, the Vision String Quartet and the Quatuor Hermès. His recording of Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy and the Sonata D 959 was honoured with the Choix de France Musique. His Beethoven recording was highly praised by the press. His most recent album with works by César Franck was released by Hänssler Classic in 2023.