Lucas Debargue’s concert at Salle Pierre-Mercure

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April 13th at 3 p.m. at Salle Pierre-Mercure
Second Cartes Blanches concert
with Lucas Debargue on piano

Montreal, April 2nd, 2025 – Pro Musica is proud to announce the second concert in the Cartes Blanches series, to be held on Sunday, April 13 at 3 p.m. at Montreal’s Salle Pierre-Mercure with French pianist Lucas Debargue.

Program :

Maurice Ravel
Jeux D’eau, M.30
Sonatine, M.40
Mazurka in B flat major, Op. 32

Gabriel Fauré
Barcarolle N°9, Op.101
Nocturne No.12, Op.107
Impromptu No.5, Op.102
Valse caprice N°4, Op.62

-Intermission-

Lucas Debargue
Suite in D minor

Alexander Scriabin
Sonata N° 3 in F sharp minor, Op.23

Revealed by the 15th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in June 2015, Lucas Debargue is the only candidate from this competition to be distinguished with the Moscow Music Critics Association Prize, which sees him as an artist “whose unique talent, creative freedom and beautiful interpretations have impressed audiences and critics alike”. Lucas Debargue has already performed in the most prestigious concert halls, including the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory and the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, the Philharmonie de Paris and London’s Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Geneva’s Victoria Hall, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, Berlin’s Konzerthaus, Munich’s Prinzregententheater and Berlin’s Philharmonie, and many others in Seattle, Chicago, Montreal, Toronto, Mexico City, Tokyo, Osaka, Beijing, Taipei, Shanghai and Seoul.

He offers interpretations that revisit the classics. In addition to playing the piano, Lucas devotes a large portion of his time to composition and has already created over twenty works for piano solo and chamber ensembles, including the Suite in D minor on this concert’s program. Lucas has also been appointed “permanent guest” of Gidon Kremer’s orchestra, the Kremerata Baltica. The collaboration with this celebrated violinist marks the start of a great friendship, which has led to tours around the world and projects such as the premiere of Lucas’s Concertino in 2017 with the Kremerata, followed by the commission of an opera in 2020.