Lazare Lubek
Free and Open to the Public
PROGRAM
Eugène Anthiome (1836-1916): Illusions Perdues (1886), Loin d’Elle (1864), and Contemplations (1909)
Lazare Lubek (2000-): Grand sonatina
Born in 2000 in Paris, Lazare Lubek is a visiting student from the ENS. He started very early to study harmony and musical writing when he was 7 years old, first in private lessons with Isabelle Duha, then at municipal and regional conservatory with Pierre Cambourian, Thibault Perrine, and then at national conservatory with Fabien Waksman, Thierry Escaich, Bernard de Crépy, Olivier Trachier, and Thomas Lacôte. He also studied piano in municipal and regional conservatories with Caroline Cren and David Saudubray, and now at École Normale de Musique de Paris with Michael Vladkowski. During his studies, as he also touched on improvisation (with Cyrille Lehn), and orchestration (with Anthony Girard, Denis Cohen, and Richard Dubugnon), he developed an approach of composing music considering musical forms as dramaturgy structure to tell a story with the variety of sounds you can put out of the piano, by considering piano timbres as orchestral timbres. His musical style can be defined as neoclassical and neo-romantic, as his influences are taken from classical composers as Mozart and Beethoven, but can also go to romantic and modern, like Mendelssohn, Brahms, Chopin, Ravel, Rachmaninoff. He keeps a very tonal language to search new ways of surprising the audience in tonal pieces, and new ways of deconstructing and reconstructing classical forms (like sonata form) to find new ways of telling stories with music.