Igor Alekseevich Lazko |

Igor Lazko

Russian pianist Igor Lazko was born in Leningrad in 1949, into a family of hereditary musicians who connected their fate with the Leningrad State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory and the Leningrad Philharmonic. He began studying music at an early age, at the secondary specialized music school at the Leningrad Conservatory (class of Professor P. A. Serebryakov). At the age of 14, Igor Lazko became the laureate of the 1st prize of the International Tchaikovsky Competition. J. S. Bach in Leipzig (Germany). At the same time, his first disc was released with a recording of piano works by J. S. Bach (two- and three-voice inventions).

The talent and diligence of the young pianist firmly connected him with the best traditions of professional music education that have developed in our country. After studying in the class of Professor P. A. Serebryakov, Igor Lazko enters the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, in the class of the outstanding musician, Professor Yakov Zak. Having brilliantly graduated from the Moscow Conservatory, the young pianist performs with unfailing success at concert venues in Europe and North America, as a soloist and as part of chamber ensembles.

In 1981, the pianist became a laureate of the contemporary music competition in Saint-Germain-on-Lo (France). Four years later, at the music festival in Nanterre (France), Igor Lazko performed almost all the works of J. S. Bach, written by the composer for the clavier. Igor Lazko performed with outstanding conductors of the USSR and Russia: Temirkanov, Jansons, Chernushenko, symphony and chamber orchestras of Europe and Canada.

From 1977 to 1991, Igor Lazko was a professor of special piano at the Belgrade Academy of Music (Yugoslavia), and at the same time he is a visiting professor at several European conservatories, combining teaching with active concert performances. Since 1992, the pianist moved to Paris, where he began teaching at conservatories. At the same time, the musician is active in musical and educational activities, being the founder of the Paris competitions named after Nikolai Rubinstein, Alexander Scriabin and Alexander Glazunov. Igor Alekseevich Lazko regularly conducts master classes in Europe and the USA.

The master has recorded a series of CDs with works for piano solo and piano and symphony and chamber orchestras: Bach, Tchaikovsky, Tartini, Dvorak, Frank, Strauss and others. Igor Lazko is a member of the jury of many international competitions.