Igor Lazko

Russian Pianist , Igor Lazko was born with Saint-Pétersbourg in 1949, resulting from a family of famous musicians since several generations. It enters at the six years age the school specialized for the young musicians of concervatoire RIMSKI-KORSAKOV, its professors are Pavel Serebriakov and Lekhovitskaya. Very young person it reveals exceptional gifts and becomes at only 14 years the youngest prize winner of the history of contest J.S. BACH of Leipzig by obtaining the bronze medal and records shortly after for Melodya the Inventions with 2 and 3 votes (1965), disc which will mark the beginning of its career of concert performer.

Its work and its exceptional talent enable him to follow the royal roads of Russian musical teaching. It improves with the Academy higher Tchaïkovsky of Moscow in the class of Yakov ZAK, successor of the Master Heinrich Neuhaus and gains the First Price in all the disciplines. From 1974 to 1977, he exerts a career of soloist and chambrist in Soviet Union and is soloist with the Philharmonic society of Leningrad. One finds it in 1981 when it gains the contest of modern music of Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer. In 1985 with the festival " Music like Bach" of Nanterre, he interprets the integral of works for keyboard of J.S. Bach. ----From 1978 to 1992, he is professor with the Faculty of Belgrade. At that time it has records the six partitas and the Variations Goldberg de J.S.Bach as well as works of Tchaïkovsky and other type-setters. Intensely engaged in the musical life of the country, the concert which he denies with the memory of the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould is crowned " better interpretation of the season 1982-1983" in Belgrade.

Igor Lazko collaborated with famous leaders such as Temirkanov, Yansons, Chernushenko, Gergiev, with the philharmonic orchestras of Leningrad, Moscow, the Orchestra of European formation and chamber music of Canada many. Installed in Paris since 1992, it continues to exempt with dynamism its art and teaches in Schola Cantorum, the National school of Music of Fresnes and especially with the Russian Academy of Paris Alexandre Scriabine, thanks to which it founds and chairs since 1996 the International Contest of Piano Nicolaï Rubinstein.

Igor Lazko already occurred at the time its innumerable rounds in France, Russia, Switzerland, Germany, Yugoslavia, Italy, Greece and in the United States. It also gives very many training courses and " Masterclass" through whole Europe (Italy, Switzerland, Germany, etc) and in the United States.

Igor Lazko is a pure artist and an authentic pianist. He is also an immense chambrist. He has at the most point this art of the " dire" with the keyboard which is the mark of the largest interpreters. He has an infallible technique (perhaps due to the regular frequentation of the work of Bach). The refined lyricism of its play, its symphonic projection of its allies to the spiritual power of its speech make its interpretations of a great authenticity, " a sound festival of a great beauty: with him the music becomes again what it was in the beginning, limpid, simple and pure" (A.M.M.).

Splendid recording recent (Suoni E Colori, Alexandre Brussilovsky, violin): sonata for violin and piano in the major one, C. FRANCK & sonata for violin and piano in major E flat, R. STRAUSS. Perhaps the most beautiful recording of the sonata for violin and piano of Franck.

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