The incredible gift, artistic vision and creative freedom” of Lucas Debargue were revealed by his performances at the Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow in 2015 and distinguished with the coveted Prize of the Moscow Music Critics Association.

Today, Lucas is invited to play solo and with leading orchestras in the most prestigious venues of the world including Berlin Philharmonie, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna, Théâtre des Champs Elysées and Philharmonie de Paris, London’s Wigmore Hall and Royal Festival Hall, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Cologne Philharmonie, Suntory Hall Tokyo, the concert halls of Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Seoul and Carnegie Hall in New York.

He also appeared several times at the summer festivals of La Roque d’Anthéron and Verbier. Lucas Debargue has already collaborated with conductors such as Mikhail Pletnev, Vladimir Jurowski, Lorenzo Viotti, Andrey Boreyko, Elim Chan, Tugan Sokhiev, Ludovic Morlot, Bertrand de Billy and Tarmo Peltokoski, as well as orchestras like London Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Stockholm Radio Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra Tokyo.

His chamber music partners include Alexandre Kantorow, Gidon Kremer, Janine Jansen, Marc Bouchkov, Camille Thomas, Kian Soltani, and Martin Fröst. Born in 1990, Lucas forged a highly unconventional path to success. Having discovered classical music at the age of 10, the future musician began to feed his passion and curiosity with diverse artistic and intellectual experiences, including advanced literature and philosophy studies. The encounter with the celebrated piano teacher Rena Shereshevskaya proved a turning point: her vision and guidance inspired Lucas to make a life-long professional commitment to music. 

A performer of fierce integrity and dazzling communicative power, Lucas Debargue draws inspiration for his playing from literature, painting, cinema, jazz, and develops a very personal interpretation of a carefully selected repertoire. Though the core piano repertoire is central to his career, he is keen to present works by lesser-known composers like Karol Szymanowski, Nikolai Medtner, or Miłosz Magin. Lucas devotes much of his time to composition and has already created over twenty works for piano solo and chamber ensembles. These include Orpheo di camera concertino for piano, drums and string orchestra, premiered by Kremerata Baltica, and a Piano Trio which was premiered under the auspices of the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris.

As a permanent guest Artist of Kremerata Baltica, Lucas has been commissioned to write a chamber opera. Lucas Debargue is an exclusive artist of Sony Classical. He has released so far five albums with the music of Scarlatti, Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Ravel, Medtner and Szymanowski. His monumental four-Cd’s box tribute to Scarlatti has been praised by The New York Times and selected as “the ten classical albums to usher in the next decade”. A CD entirely dedicated to the Polish composer Miłosz Magin is a true discovery of a fascinating, yet unknown composer recorded with Kremerata Baltica and Gidon Kremer.

In March 2024, Sony Classical released his last recording containing in a box of 4 CDs the complete piano works of Gabriel Fauré. This album achieved huge success, both in terms of sales and critical reception, with highly positive international press coverage and several distinctions (5 DIAPASONS from Diapason Magazine, Choc 2024 from Classica Magazine, Prix Radio Classique 2024, finalist at the ICMA Awards 2025 in the "Solo Instrument" category).

In September 2025, Lucas Debargue has recorded live with the Orchestre de Paris conducted by Elim Chan Gershwin Piano Concerto in F. This recording will form the centrepiece of his next recording for SONY Classical, entirely dedicated to the music of Gershwin. The double CD will, for the first time, present Lucas Debargue in the role of composer, and will display several of his transcriptions of Gershwin’s most iconic themes. The complete album is scheduled for release in spring 2026. Major engagements for Lucas Debargue in the 2025-26 season include returns to the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Vienna Konzerthaus, Wigmore Hall in London, Warsaw Philharmonic.

He will also appear with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra at the Tonhalle Zurich and in Dresden, with Enescu Philharmonic in Bucharest and perform with Kremerata Baltica at the Kronberg Academy and the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. Other engagements include Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, Milan Conservatory, Bordeaux, Lyon, Istanbul, Lausanne and a tour in Australia with recitals in the major towns. Lucas’s breakthrough at the Tchaikovsky Competition is the subject of the documentary To Music. Directed by Martin Mirabel and produced by Bel Air Media, it was shown at the International Film Festival in Biarritz.