Ingmar Lazar (born June 22, 1993 in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French classical pianist.
Ingmar Lazar started to play the piano when he was 5. He made his debut at the age of six at the Salle Gaveau in Paris.
At the age of ten he won the International EPTA Piano Competition in Namur, Belgium, and in 2008 he was the winner of the C.I.M. International Academy in Val d'Isère, France.
He has been invited to give concerts in France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, and in the United States in prestigious halls such as the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory and the International Performing Arts Center in Moscow, the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv, the Henry Crown Symphony Hall in Jerusalem, the Salle Cortot and the Grand UNESCO Hall in Paris, the Great Philharmonic Hall of Ljubljana… and also in many festivals (the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the International Dinard Festival, the Festival “Les Notes Blanches” in Courchevel, the Festival “Randonnées musicales en Gâtinais”, the International Chioggia Festival, the "Estate Regina" Festival in Montecatini Terme, the "Pianomaster" Festival in Gravedona… ).
He was invited to perform with the Symphony Orchestra of the Chioggia Festival, the Toruń Symphony Orchestra, the Radio Chamber Orchestra of Bucharest, the Orchestre Lamoureux, the Moscow Virtuosi under the baton of Vladimir Spivakov …
Ingmar Lazar's discography includes two CD-recordings for the Suoni e Colori label together with violinist Alexandre Brussilovsky. He was also featured on TV for French programs such as Mezzo, TF1, M6, Téva, as well as on radio Europe 1 where he was invited to play Mozart at the time of the celebration of the 250th birthday of the composer.
Ingmar Lazar has studied piano with Valery Sigalevitch and Vladimir Krainev, and theory and harmony with Françoise Levéchin-Gangloff. He is currently studying at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover in the class of Bernd Goetzke, as well as at the International Piano Academy Lake Como with Dmitri Bashkirov, Malcolm Bilson, Fou Ts'ong, Peter Frankl, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Vladimir Mischouk, and William Grant Naboré.