Ingmar Lazar
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Ingmar Lazar 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
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

.

At the age of ten he won the International EPTA Piano Competition in Namur
Namur
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, Belgium
Belgium
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, and in 2008 he was the winner of the C.I.M. International Academy in Val d'Isère
Val d'Isère
Val d'Isère is a commune of the Tarentaise Valley, in the Savoie department in south-eastern France. It lies from the border with Italy. It is on the border of the Vanoise National Park created in 1963. The Face de Bellevarde was the scene of the men's downhill race as part of the 1992 Winter...

, France
France
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.

He has been invited to give concerts in France, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, Israel
Israel
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, Italy
Italy
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, Lithuania
Lithuania
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, Romania
Romania
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, Russia
Russia
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, Slovenia
Slovenia
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, and in the United States
United States
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 in prestigious halls such as the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory
Moscow Conservatory
The Moscow Conservatory is a higher musical education institution in Moscow, and the second oldest conservatory in Russia after St. Petersburg Conservatory. Along with the St...

 and the International Performing Arts Center
Moscow International House of Music
The Moscow International Performing Arts Center was officially opened on September 28, 2003 with the debut of a new orchestra, the National Philharmonic of Russia under musical director Vladimir Spivakov...

 in Moscow
Moscow
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, the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
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, the Henry Crown Symphony Hall
Jerusalem Theater
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 in Jerusalem, the Salle Cortot and the Grand UNESCO
UNESCO
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 Hall in Paris, the Great Philharmonic Hall of Ljubljana
Ljubljana
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… and also in many festivals (the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the International Dinard
Dinard
Dinard is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in north-western France.Dinard is on the Côte d'Émeraude of Brittany. Its beaches and mild climate make it a popular holiday destination, and this has resulted in the town having a variety of famous visitors and residents...

 Festival, the Festival “Les Notes Blanches” in Courchevel
Courchevel
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, the Festival “Randonnées musicales en Gâtinais”, the International Chioggia
Chioggia
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 Festival, the "Estate Regina" Festival in Montecatini Terme
Montecatini Terme
Montecatini Terme is an Italian district of 21,095 inhabitants within the province of Pistoia in Tuscany. The most important center in Valdinievole...

, the "Pianomaster" Festival in Gravedona
Gravedona
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… ).

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
Vladimir Spivakov
Vladimir Teodorovich Spivakov is a leading Russian conductor and violinist best known for his work with the chamber orchestra....

 …

Ingmar Lazar's discography includes two CD-recordings for the Suoni e Colori label together with violinist Alexandre Brussilovsky
Alexandre Brussilovsky
Alexander Brussilovsky is a Russian-born French violinist and conductor.Alexandre Brussilovsky was born in Ukraine and completed his musical education at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under Yuri Yankelevich, Maya Glezarova, Felix Andrievsky and Leonid Kogan...

. He was also featured on TV for French programs such as Mezzo
Mezzo TV
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, TF1
TF1
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, M6, Téva, as well as on radio Europe 1
Europe 1
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 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 professors Valery Sigalevitch
Valery Sigalevitch
Valery Sigalevitch is a Russian classical concert pianist.-Biography:...

 and Vladimir Krainev
Vladimir Krainev
Vladimir Krainev was a Russian pianist and professor of piano, People's Artist of the USSR.-Biography:...

, and theory and harmony with Françoise Levéchin-Gangloff. He is currently studying at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover
Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover
Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover is an artistic-scientific university in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany. It dates back to 1897. From 1962 until 2010 it was named Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover , short: Musikhochschule Hannover...

 in the class of Bernd Goetzke, as well as at the International Piano Academy Lake Como
International Piano Academy Lake Como
The International Piano Academy Lake Como is a music school. Seven pianists, chosen annually from a worldwide field of 400 applicants including many international prizewinners, have the opportunity of studying with a faculty whose core membership past and present includes such stellar artists as...

 with professors Dmitri Bashkirov, Malcolm Bilson
Malcolm Bilson
Malcolm Bilson is an American pianist specializing in performance on the fortepiano, which is the 18th century version of the piano. Bilson is the Frederick J...

, Fou Ts'ong
Fou Ts'ong
Fou Ts'ong is a Chinese pianist.Born in Shanghai to a family of intellectuals , Fou first studied piano with Mario Paci, the Italian founder of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra...

, Peter Frankl
Peter Frankl
Peter Frankl is a Hungarian-born British pianist. He mainly performs music from the Classical period , the Romantic period and the early Modern period...

, Stanislav Ioudenitch
Stanislav Ioudenitch
Stanislav Ioudenitch , is a pianist from the former Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan. He was a Gold Medalist at the Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2001, tying for first place with Olga Kern...

, Vladimir Mischouk
Vladimir Mischouk
Vladimir Mischouk is a Russian classical pianist, Honoured Artist of Russia.The pianist enterred in 1975 at the Music School of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in the class of Valentina Kunde, and then studied from 1986 until 1991 with Tatiana Kravchenko at the Conservatory itself...

, and William Grant Naboré.

External links

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