Lucas Debargue Live in Toorak

Live at Yours proudly presents the enigmatic French pianist Lucas Debargue, an artist of rare imagination, whose performances feel less like recitals and more like encounters. A virtuoso of electrifying control and deep poetic instinct, Debargue moves effortlessly between worlds: classical and contemporary, refined elegance and fearless risk. He improvises. He composes. He thinks on stage and you feel it in every phrase.

L’Enigme Francaise is a programme of shimmering French colour and razor-sharp brilliance, culminating in one of the most notorious feats in the piano repertoire: Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit, music that seduces, haunts and astonishes. From Faure’s luminous theme and variations, to new music written especially for him, to a finale that slips deliciously into jazz-inflected invention, this is French artistry in its most captivating form.

The programme includes Faure’s Theme et Variations, Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit, Delplace’s Intermezzo VI and Ground (dedicated to Debargue), and Debargue/Gershwin Summertime Variations.

A rare chance to experience one of the world’s most fascinating pianists, live, up close and unforgettable under the stunning Byzantine dome of the Toorak synagogue.