Igor Lazko is a Soviet and French pianist. He was born in 1949 in Leningrad into a family of musicians and received his first piano training in the class of S. Lyakhovitskaya.
At the age of fourteen he became a prize-winner at the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig. He graduated from the Secondary Specialized Music School attached to the Leningrad Conservatory, where he studied with Professor P. Serebryakov, and later from the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied with Professor Y. Zak.
Lazko gave many concerts throughout the world. In 1981 he became a prize-winner at the International Competition of Contemporary Music in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and in 1985 he presented a monographic program of works by Johann Sebastian Bach at the festival “Musique comme BACH” in Nanterre.
Until 1992 he was a professor at the Belgrade Music Academy and took part in music festivals in Yugoslavia, including those in Belgrade, Dubrovnik, Opatija, and Zagreb. He later became professor at the Russian Conservatory named after Alexander Scriabin and at the Schola Cantorum in Paris.
In France he founded and organized international competitions for pianists named after Nikolai Rubinstein in 1996 and Alexander Scriabin in 2001, as well as the Alexander Glazunov International Competition for violin, viola, and cello from 2000.
His discography includes more than fifteen CDs of solo performances and chamber ensemble recordings. His first released recording was Johann Sebastian Bach's Two-Part Inventions, issued on vinyl by the Melodiya label in 1966. Among his later albums are the two releases of “Golden Repertoire of Cellists,” published by Composer Saint Petersburg in 2009 and 2012, which he recorded together with his father, the cellist A. A. Lazko.