French pianist Lucas Debargue, the most talked about candidate in the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition, was unanimously chosen the winner of the Moscow Critics’ Prize, given an artist whose “incredible gift, artistic vision, and creative freedom have impressed the critics as well as the audience.” Immediately after, he began performing around the world in solo recitals in the most prestigious halls and as soloist with leading orchestras and conductors. He now gives his first Koerner Hall solo recital.

Debargue’s program features 10 sonatas by Scarlatti, from his new 4-CD SONY Classical album, Scarlatti – 52 Sonatas; as well as Nicolai Medtner’s rarely heard Sonata in G Minor, Op. 22; and two of the most challenging works in the piano repertoire – Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit, and Liszt’s After a Reading of Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata, S.109.

TICKETS: Koerner Hall box office, in person, by phone at 416-408-0208, or online.

“There hasn’t been a foreign pianist who has caused such a stir since Glenn Gould’s arrival in Moscow in the midst of the Cold War, or Van Cliburn’s victory at the Tchaikovsky Competition.” – Huffington Post