Ingmar Lazar

Hailed by the Classica Magazine as a "pianist of magnetic presence", Ingmar Lazar is internationally praised for his deep and moving performances, as well as for his brilliant control and stupendous technique. He has firmly established himself as one of the leading French musicians of his generation. 

Ingmar Lazar performs in the world’s most prestigious halls such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Herkulessaal in Munich, International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, Verdi Hall of the Milan Conservatory, Rudolfinum in Prague, La Seine Musicale in Paris, Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest, Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, and the Charles Bronfman Auditorium in Tel Aviv to name a few. He is regularly invited to many distinguished festivals including Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, La Roque d'Anthéron International Piano Festival, Grafenegg Festival, Colmar International Festival, Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier, Festival Chopin in Paris, Festival Les Piano Folies in Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, Póvoa de Varzim International Music Festival, Sant Pere de Rodes Music Festival, and the Gotthard Klassik-Festival.

He collaborates with conductors such as Vladimir Spivakov, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Mykola Diadiura, Mathieu Herzog, Julien Chauvin, Anna Duczmal-Mróz, Marko Hribernik, Peter Vizard among many others, and performs with orchestras including the National Philharmonic of Russia, the Moscow Virtuosi, the Orchestre Pasdeloup, the Orchestre Lamoureux, the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, the Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, L'Ensemble Appassionato, Le Concert de la Loge, and the Lviv Philharmonic Academic Symphony Orchestra to name a few.

Ingmar Lazar is also a dedicated chamber musician, and shares the stage with Pierre Amoyal, Giuseppe Gibboni, Danielle Laval, Jean-Claude Pennetier, Christoph Seybold, Igor Tchetuev, the Quatuor Hermès, and the Vision String Quartet. 

His critically acclaimed discography includes a Schubert recital (Wanderer Fantasie and Sonata D.959) released in 2017 on the Lyrinx label, which received a five-star rating from the Classica Magazine, and was awarded with "France Musique's Choice". A Beethoven recital (Bagatelles op. 33, Sonatas op. 81a "Les Adieux" and op. 111) recorded live at the National Theatre in Marseille "La Criée" was released in 2019 on the same label, receiving once more a five-star rating from the Classica Magazine. His latest recording released in 2023 on Hänssler Classic devoted to works of César Franck received fabulous press critics, and was awarded with a “five” from Diapason, as well as with a five-star rating from the Classica Magazine. Ingmar Lazar recorded also several CDs for the Suoni e Colori label including works by Jean-Philippe Rameau and, in duo with Alexandre Brussilovsky, works by Jean Françaix, Mieczyslaw Weinberg, and Efrem Podgaits. As a defender of contemporary music, he recorded several works of Pascal Arnault for Triton/Hortus.

Born in France in 1993, Ingmar Lazar made his debut at the age of 6 at the Salle Gaveau in Paris. Prizewinner of several international competitions, he is the recipient of the Tabor Foundation Piano Award at the Verbier Festival in 2013. He was also named laureate of the Safran Foundation for Music, France in 2016. In 2020 he became prizewinner of the Ateliers Médicis, with the support of the French Ministry of Culture. Ingmar Lazar is a Steinway Artist.

A former student of Valery Sigalevitch and Alexis Golovin, Ingmar Lazar continued his studies with Vladimir Krainev and Bernd Goetzke at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. Thereafter he attended the International Piano Academy Lake Como and the Conservatory of the Italian Switzerland (Lugano) as a Theo Lieven scholar, where he studied with Dmitri Bashkirov, Malcolm Bilson, Fou Ts'ong, and Stanislav Ioudenitch. He received his Master's and Postgraduate degree from the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg in the class of Pavel Gililov. He also completed a Postgratudate degree with Elisso Virsaladze at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, and was a member of the Philippe Jaroussky Music Academy. 

Since 2016, Ingmar Lazar has been the founder and artistic director of the Festival du Bruit qui Pense, located in Louveciennes in the Yvelines, in north-central France. He is also the president of the "Association des amis du Château de Commarin" (Burgundy), where he serves as artistic director of its cultural season. Ingmar Lazar has been named in 2023 artistic director of the festival "Fugues Pianistiques" taking place in the city of Chelles in Seine-et-Marne.