Ingmar Lazar

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Ingmar Lazar (b. June 22, 1993 in St. Cloud, France) is a French classical pianist.

Ingmar Lazar begins the piano at 5 years old in Paris. He is noticed quickly at various competitions of piano where he wins 1st Great Prices (UFAM, Claude Kahn, FLAME). He made his debuts at 6 in the Salle Gaveau and gives his first recital at 9 to the Garibaldi Theatre at Figline Valdarno in Italy.

One year later, he wins the International Competition of piano EPTA in Namur, Belgium. He is since then invited to give concerts in France (Magne Atrium, Moulin of Andé, Schola Cantorum, Salle Cortot, Grand Auditorium of Caen, Great Hall of UNESCO, Gilles de La Rocque Auditorium in Courchevel, International piano Festival of Dinard), 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 and Great Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory), in Germany (Kloster Isenhagen, Lister Turm, Theater Cavallo).

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, Prokofiev, Ravel, Debussy, Joseph Achron, Mieczyslaw Weinberg which he plays in solo recital or with the cellist Suren Bagratuni and the violinist Alexandre Brussilovsky.

Ingmar Lazar was also broadcasted for television (Mezzo TV, TF1 Métropole Télévision) and for the 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.

He has studied piano with Vladimir Viardo, Konstantin Bogino, Valery Sigalevitch and theory and harmony with Francoise Levechin-Gangloff. Currently he continues his musical formation at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover in the class of Vladimir Krainev.