I Pianisti del Lingotto. Lucas Debargue

Venue: Sala 500. Address: Via Nizza 280 The French pianist Lucas Debargue has forged a completely unconventional path: raised in a family of non-musicians, he gave up the instrument at fifteen to study literature, then appeared at the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition - where, although he placed fourth, he received the Moscow music critics' prize as a performer whose "incredible talent, artistic vision and creative freedom" impressed the audience. A path outside any scheme, for a pianist still difficult to classify today: jazz, literature, cinema and painting are sources of inspiration for him just as much as the classical tradition. The program he presents for his return to the Lingotto is a faithful reflection of this freedom: four Sonatas by Scarlatti open the evening, with their Baroque wit, followed by the refined sensibility of Ravel with Sonatine and Jeux d’eau and by the titanic Sonata n. 2 by Rachmaninov . To close, an original composition of his on a theme by Gershwin : a revealing gesture of his idea of music as a territory without borders.