Lucas Debargue

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The French pianist Lucas Debargue was born in Paris in 1990 into a non-musical family. In 1999 he settled in Compiègne, about 90 kilometers north of Paris, and began his initial piano studies at the local music school at the age of eleven. At fifteen Debargue ceased piano studies, having found no musical mentor to help him share his passion with others and having become frustrated at playing solely for himself. He began to work toward his Baccalaureate at a local college and joined a rock band. At seventeen he relocated to the capital to study for a degree in Arts and Literature at Paris-Diderot University and, remarkably, ceased playing the piano altogether for three years. In 2010 he was asked to play at the Fête de la Musique festival in Compiègne, and this marked his return to the keyboard. Shortly after this he was put in touch with his current mentor and guide, the celebrated Russian professor Rena Shereshevskaya, who is based at both the Rueil-Malmaison Conservatory and the École Normale de Musique de Paris ‘Alfred Cortot’. Seeing in Debargue a future great interpreter, Professor Shereshevskaya admitted him into her class at the Alfred Cortot School to prepare him for grand international competitions. It was at the age of twenty that Debargue started formal piano training. Only four years later he entered the 15th International Tchaikovsky Competition, and the world instantly took note of a startling and original new talent. “There hasn’t been a foreign pianist w

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