Jazz and maloya,
one practice

Lucas Baret is a guitarist and composer from Réunion Island. He plays and writes between jazz and maloya, the ancestral music of the island.

Applying to European jazz conservatoires.

Between jazz and maloya

Maloya is the ancestral music of Réunion, inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009. Lucas grew up playing it alongside jazz.

He trained at the Centre des Musiques Didier Lockwood and has toured in France, Réunion, the Canary Islands and Indonesia.

Repertoire, dates and recordings are listed on the audition page as they are confirmed.

Elsewhere on this site

The audition page carries the full biography, the repertoire, photographs and recordings, for juries, programmers and press. The newsletter is occasional notes on what Lucas is writing and where he is playing.

Contact

For auditions, programming and press. The form on the contact page reaches Lucas directly.